The audio recording of a June 18th talk by David McNally on the global economy today is now online. With the more intelligent pro-capitalist economics journalists openly worrying that the crisis will get worse (Martin Wolf writes in the Financial Times that the G-20's "call for 'growth-friendly fiscal consolidation plans'... assumes what is to be proved: that rapid fiscal consolidation will now support growth, rather than undermine it"), it's important to understand the crisis that continues to affect so many people's lives and will shape the context for everyone working for progressive social change.