The Group of Eight leaders, meeting over the weekend at the Camp David presidential retreat, are trying to figure out how to tame Europe's debt crisis while also increasing the demand for goods and spurring job growth. In talks Saturday, President Barack Obama and leaders of Germany, France, Canada, Italy, Britain, Russia, and Japan are looking to build consensus. Also on the agenda is energy. The Camp David gathering, the largest collection of foreign leaders ever at the presidential retreat, is the first G-8 meeting for French President Francois Hollande, for Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti and for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda. Russian President Vladimir Putin is skipping the G-8. He sent Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in his place.
