Sharp-talking political economist Mark Blyth is back in the Glasgow pub, so we say, and he's expounding on the melt-down that's still melting down -- why our debts to China are less cause for worry than, say, another "routine" crisis in Europe. One of Mark Blyth's favorite phrases, he says, is that things continue until they stop. In this whirlwind primer on the health of today's global economy, we'll hear why the Queen of England is writing off the next 50 years of Irish history; why the IMF should have closed its doors some 30 years before the sex scandal that seems to rivet all of us; and why the Dodd-Frank plan to bring Wall Street back under control is merely a "set of airbags" in the same high-risk vehicle.

Sharp-talking political economist Mark Blyth is back in the Glasgow pub, so we say, and he's expounding on the melt-down that's still melting down -- why our debts to China are less cause for worry than, say, another "routine" crisis in Europe. One of Mark Blyth's favorite phrases, he says, is that things continue until they stop. In this whirlwind primer on the health of today's global economy, we'll hear why the Queen of England is writing off the next 50 years of Irish history; why the IMF should have closed its doors some 30 years before the sex scandal that seems to rivet all of us; and why the Dodd-Frank plan to bring Wall Street back under control is merely a "set of airbags" in the same high-risk vehicle.