China’s new leaders take over an economy at the crossroads. Its wealth may rival the U.S. in the next decade, yet growth is slowing, its population is aging and income disparity is widening.

The U.S. has about a one-in-three chance of falling off the fiscal cliff if political dysfunction holds sway in the U.S., says Mohamed El-Erian, Co-CEO of PIMCO, the global asset management firm.

CNN’s Ben Wedeman on how workers in southern Italy are increasingly despondent about their future prospects.

Seth Guikema, assistant professor at Johns Hopkins, talks to CNN’s Richard Quest about predicting 10 million outages.