World leaders tackle the global crisis. WASHINGTON — World leaders agreed Saturday to put tighter controls on financial markets and work together to halt the economic crisis now cascading across the globe. "We must lay the foundation for reform to help to ensure that a global crisis, such as this one, does not happen again," the leaders said in a joint statement. G-20 nations comprising of United States, Germany, Japan, France, Italy, Britain, Canada, European Union, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, South Africa, and Turkey sat in an emergency summit like meeting in Washington National Building Museum when the world economy has been gripped by ' economic tsunami'. Spain and the Netherlands were also invited. This G-20 group was established in 1999 with wealthy and emerging economy countries. This 20- nation group represents eighty-five percent of world economies. Leaders considered creating a 'college of supervisors to oversee the world's biggest financial institutions. College of supervisors would bring together international regulators to coordinate oversight of the world's 30 largest financial institutions. • The German Finance Minister commented on the importance of the summit in this way "The window of opportunities for financial reform has never been as wide open as at present." • The Canadian Prime Minister said, "It was unlikely that the major economies of the world would consent to external control of their regulatory system." • The French president said, "We want to change the rules of the game in the financial world. The G-20 and the Group of 8 Billion The message from last weekend’s G-20 summit meeting on the global economy [was]: The game can’t go on. The game must go on. In the face of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, European leaders had flirted with the idea of actually trying to change something. As a result, it is necessary to rebuild the entire global financial and monetary system from the bottom up, “the way it was done at Bretton Woods.” The PM of Britain said, “We now have global financial markets, global corporations, global financial flows. But what we do not have is anything other than national and regional regulation and supervision.” We need “a global way of supervising our financial system.” He called for “very large and very radical changes,” including turning the IMF into a “global central bank. Now is the time to build a global society." "Uniquely in this global age, it is now in our power to come together so that 2008 is remembered not just for the failure of a financial crash that engulfed the world but for the resilience and optimism with which we faced the storm, endured it and prevailed." "And if we learn from our experience of turning unity of purpose into the unity of action, we can together seize this moment of change in our world to create a truly global society." He set out five great challenges the world faces: terrorism and extremism; the global economy; climate change; conflict and mechanisms for rebuilding states after conflict; and tackling poverty and disease. "My message is that we must be: internationalist not protectionist; interventionist not neutral; progressive not reactive; and forward-looking not frozen by events. We can seize the moment and in doing so build a truly global society." From WNS-41c - Global Signs of Christ's Coming (081123PM) - https://youtu.be/c4F73gBXbe8 Join the LAND OF THE BOOK channel to get access to weekly video releases over the next year totaling 50+ EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS that feature weekly in-depth Bible Study lessons with John & Bonnie. Clips are taken at just one of the places where we are taking our virtual journey through all the Lands of the Bible & Great Museums of the Bible on the Paul's Life & Letters Course. Plus all the assigned HOLY LAND, Paul's Life & Letters Course STUDY RESOURCES, and John's two most loved books--David's Spiritual Secret & Living Hope for the End of Days at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVK6dN-9kLDnQhYBFuES09A/join Follow Discover the Book Ministries to stay up to date: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discoverthebook/ DTBM Academy Courses: https://dtbmonline.org/all-video-courses/ Purchase John's Books, Mp3 & DVD resources: E-Books: https://tinyurl.com/y3wbhlxy Here are links to our Amazon Pages-- https://www.amazon.com/shop/dtbm Donate to the ministry: https://discoverthebook.org/donations/partnership/ For more of Dr. John Barnett's Bible teaching messages go to: https://discoverthebook.org/ https://youtu.be/YcHsEY4kbRg ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcHsEY4kbRg

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