#22 Planet Money: Global Frustration

Adam Davidson breaks down three theories on whether the Treasury's new plan for toxic assets will actually work. And our global recession anger tour takes off with stops in China, Sweden and Egypt. In China, NPR correspondent Lisa Lim gives us the view from students and teachers at the China Center for Economic Studies in Shanghai. Sweden comes to us, when Swedish Public Radio reporter Linnea Ericsson stops by the studio to talk layoffs and unions. And from Egypt, Dr. Hani Henry shares the story of Cairo's own Bernie Madoff.