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Geithner-Krugman Feud Comes To A Head On Sunday Shows

Mar 29, 2009 22:19

by Rachel Weiner, Huffington Post

The high-profile policy duel between Tim Geithner and Paul Krugman came to a head on Sunday. Following the Treasury Secretary's appearance on ABC's "This Week (read/watch that interview here), Krugman participated in the panel session and made clear that he hadn't yet been convinced ( Read more... )

tim geithner, paul krugman, youtube

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ladypolitik March 30 2009, 02:28:16 UTC

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jaded110 March 30 2009, 02:30:25 UTC

XD I love this gif.

nikolovikis March 30 2009, 08:16:40 UTC

what in the fu....c.............k......hh...

hellooo March 30 2009, 18:24:09 UTC

I love this GIF and all its variations.

schmiss March 30 2009, 02:33:08 UTC

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
MAKE OUT! MAKE OUT!

... lol actually don't, plz.

neway, I'm kinda sick about hearing about bringing confidence to the markets &c. &c. &c., wasn't that Bush's excuse for everything? We get it, private investors must be the sole beneficiary of our programs, or else they will cry to mommy and go Galt and leave us peons in the dust. Sigh.

syndicalist March 30 2009, 02:49:20 UTC

Less of everyone else and MORE KRUGMAN!

I wish George Will had gotten up from that tabe and gone and raced out that big bay window.

Also, thank you for posting this.

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bord_du_rasoir March 30 2009, 04:05:03 UTC

Nuriel Roubini is a genie, a financial wizard, and a scholar,
No one listened when he hollered that you're building your castle with a facile disregard for what's obvious.
[some term I don't know, lol]
Nuriel Roubini saw the writing on the wall before anyone and he had just begun,
So like Paul Krugman, why not bring him in, and give him some influence, to make a difference.

I left a comment asking him if he'd do a song on Stiglitz. His Roubini one only got 7,000 views. I wonder if a Stiglitz vid would beat out the Roubini vid in views.

We live in strange times.

syndicalist March 30 2009, 08:38:25 UTC

Man, I forgot about Nouriel Rubini, but, yeah, he is one of the ones who did corectly predict this thing - like Dean Baker and Doug Henwood, two other liberal economists. From what I know, Roubini also supports stuff basically along the lines of what Bker, Galbraith, et. al. support, too.

whosmurry March 30 2009, 03:11:40 UTC

Wow, I'm used to watching cable news and I sleep in on Sundays, so the level of serious, rational discourse in those clips is shocking. I'm going to have to start getting up early on the weekends.

Krugman has some good points to make, but I think he needs to consider, just for a moment, that the administration might know what it's doing.

Also, I had a little West Wing fangirl moment when one of them mentioned post hoc ergo propter hoc. I was just proud that I knew what that meant. I learn so much from that show.