"taking On China" By Dr. Paul Krugman

[jazzbo]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/opinion/15krugman.html?hp

From today's New York Times -- It's early in the morning NYC time and Dr. Krugman's column is open for Comments. Here's a chance for the usual-suspects to tell Dr. Krugman personally why he doesn't know what-the-<deleted>> he is talking about... I'll be on the look-out for all those comments from Thailand

[midas]

I move that any mention of Krugman's name be prefaced with "Former Enron Advisor."

[babuhavas]

I dont understand the joke.

Anyway i think USA should give visa to chinese nation very easy,this will bring $ back to America.

slow process but workable.

[jazzbo]

Why not really tarnish him and call him (gasp) a Keynesian... In one of his recent NYT columns he said that the problem with the USA recovery is not government intervention but that the government was not intervening enough.

as per Enron:

In early 1999, Krugman served on an advisory panel (including Larry Lindsey and Robert Zoellick) that offered Enron executives briefings on economic and political issues. He resigned from the panel in the fall of 1999 to comply with New York Times rules regarding conflicts of interest... (Wikipedia)

The NYTimes loves pithy comments...

readers' comments

Taking On China

By PAUL KRUGMAN

It’s time for America to confront China about the undervaluation of its currency, which is adding to the world’s economic problems at a time when those problems are already severe.

Share your thoughts. ... Maybe be other than a big fish in a nano-pond.

[jazzbo]

Pick of the litter so far:

The idea that America is in a position to play "hard ball" with the Chinese is amusing coming from an economist.

Our weakness in this regard is exacerbated by our deficits, of which you are proponent. You can't have it both ways.

#220.

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george

boston

March 15th, 2010

2:12 pm

I've looked at 200+ comments so far (there were 330 total before closing) from all over the world and they are about 3:1 the above sentiment... none so far from Thailand.

My personal favorite:

177.

Very well put Dr. Krugman. As much as most people don't realize it, we do indeed have China over the barrel. As Donald Trump once said "When you owe a bank $1 million dollars, you're in trouble. When you owe a bank one billion dollars, they're in trouble."

Steven Esses

New York, NY

March 15th, 2010

1:28 pm

[cdnvic]

I see no connection to Thailand or doing business here except in the very abstract.