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All three anchors prepared to jet to London to attend the G20 Financial Summit to be hosted by Prime Minister Gordon Brown. CBS' Mark Phillips handicapped Brown's chances of securing his "global New Deal" consisting of "further financial stimulus and tighter market regulation" and concluded that his plan looks like a House of Cards. Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Nicolas Sarkozy (commenter bkavfa at CBS accurately notes that Sarkozy is represented by the wrong flag) both reject further public debt. Premier Wen Jiabao is unwilling to increase lending. The European Union's current president Mirek Topolanek calls Brown's plan the Road to Hell. NBC offered free publicity to Joshua Cooper Ramo's new book The Age of the Unthinkable when it asked him to preview G20 in its In His Own Words feature. He called G20 "possibly as important a summit as we have had since Yalta" and predicted an end to liberty itself if it failed to become "a real hot pot of innovation."
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