Can the New Club Get It Right in London?

Published April 1, 2009

The G20 is the new club for the global power elite. The "in" and "out" list is not about high fashion, but power in the painfully contracting global economy. Around since December 1999, Paul Martin helped think it up as a place where finance ministers from The Club—the G7—could meet behind closed doors with some carefully selected, emerging countries, the aspirant rich and powerful from the developing world, such as the BRICs, Brazil,...