When countries open up to trade, they generally benefit, because they can sell more, then they can buy more. And trade has two-way gain.

The narrowing of the trade gap and claims coming in at four-year lows has a lot to do with today's market action.

In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development.

The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.

Let's start fresh with Russia on some real help and some real reform.

I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.