As he unveils a package of new ideas, we consider what President Barack Obama can do to put his country back on course.
Also in this week's podcast: he's been called "the unacceptable face of banking" by government ministers. So why has Bob Diamond got the top job at Barclays?
Plus, Ha-Joon Chang joins us to explode the myths about capitalism. He is that rarest of beasts: a Cambridge academic who is also a renowned iconoclast, an economist who doesn't think economists should run an economy.
Joining Aditya Chakrabortty in the studio, the Guardian's economics editor, Larry Elliott, transport correspondent Dan Milmo and columnist Hadley Freeman.
