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Obama pushes global economic stimulus effort

 
The U.S., ahead of a G-20 meeting of finance ministers, calls on more countries to inject money into their own economies. > Even as it spends hundreds of billions of dollars to revive the U.S. economy, the Obama administration is opening a second front -- pressing European and other nations to launch bigger efforts to stimulate their own economies. (link)

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