When LinkedIn was floated on the New York stock exchange last week its share price doubled on the first day. It's led some analysts to warn of an impending rerun of the dotcom bubble that burst in 2000. The Guardian's technology editor Charles Arthur is less pessimistic and sees genuine value in Microsoft's purchase of Skype.
Also on the panel this week we have the Guardian's economics editor Larry Elliott, the Observer's business editor Andrew Clark and the director of the Bretton Woods Project Peter Chowla.
As the candidates to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn step up their we examine the challenges facing the IMF, and why the top job always goes to a European.
Angelique Chrisafis, our Paris correspondent, outlines why French finance minister Christine Lagarde is the hot favourite.
And finally: Russ Roberts, professor of economics at George Mason university explains how he co-wrote two hit YouTube rap videos about John Maynard Keynes and Frederich Hayek.
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