At a recent community forum on the economy, Professor Joseph Stiglitz argued in favor of temporary bank nationalization, calling it “not that big of a deal” and essential to changing incentive structures. “When the economy recovers, you privatize again,” he said.
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. —John Kenneth Galbraith
Asian currencies continue to sell off vs the $ on the heels of the news yesterday that South Korea said they will look into hot money inflows stemming from the $ carry trade and the Bank of Indonesia said they are looking into the foreign buying of bills. This follows the news a few weeks ago that Taiwan was limiting foreign deposit holdings and Brazil was taxing foreign inflow transactions. As I mentioned yesterday, we may have reached a short term pain threshold in terms of $ weakness and foreign countries are fighting back as they certainly won't wait for...
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July 19th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
We should bookmark this for when the know-nothings shift from today’s “what, me worry?” mode back into the mode of “why didn’t those useless economists warn us and why can’t they explain what caused” the slow growth recovery that Dr. Stiglitz predicts.