With roller-coaster gas prices becoming the norm, this ABC News program travels the country to uncover surprising and sometimes disturbing aspects of the oil industry. Charles Gibson reports from Cushing, Oklahoma, where the price of a barrel of oil...
The social and economic catastrophe left in the ashes of World War I ignited an intellectual and political struggle that would last most of the 20th century. This program tells the story of how, for half a century, the world moved toward more govern...
In the 20th century, most of the world's nations tried to create prosperity through government control of their economies—from the totalitarian central planning of the communist world to more democratic nations that tried to develop their economie...
In the early 1990s, most of the world had converted to free-market capitalism, setting the stage for a new, and rapidly growing, global economy. Disappearing trade barriers and unrestricted capital flows fueled by a global workforce and furious tech...