host: our final guest this morning, sudeep reddy at the "wall street journal." what was the purpose of the g20? guest: it was set up as a forum for the leading economies of the world. was designed to work on economic and financial issues. it includes 19 of the largest communities in the world. it is an opportunity for world leaders to get together and try to coordinate financial policy. leadership of all of these countries are realized in the late 1990's that they needed to have some ability to gather on a regular basis. most of it has been an attempt to coordinate. forum0 became the leading friends or national participation during 2008, when they realized they needed just -- not just the old western powers involved, but also the emerging markets. all of these countries coming to the table to talk about how you can support stronger economic very --ate it was growth. it was very important to have the countries of the world leaning in the same direction. host: what were the proposals at that time? , doingshared stimulus whatever was necessary to make sure the glob