Comments on: Niall Ferguson: The Global Financial Crisis

By: vikramkrishnan

vikramkrishnan — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:44:23 +0000

exactly he is ignoring the fact that China is shifting from currency to commodities in a big way

By: myroseaccount

myroseaccount — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:07:55 +0000

Ferguson is already behind! The price of oil is already rising.

By: klaotha

klaotha — Fri, 29 May 2009 07:07:36 +0000

: “the largest imaginable deficit in peacetime”
Peacetime?
I guess,then, that this brit-style fellow( look at the awe-striken audience!) considers the two present – or should we say three- US-wars against 200 million people “peacetime”.
Thats a stand!

By: rosebank

rosebank — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:34:59 +0000

My understanding is more like $50b a mth for iraq but thats still $600b a yr!!!! but who knows as the US govt does alot of creative accouting!!!!!

By: beancube2008

beancube2008 — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:12:57 +0000

All analysts need to explain why printed money dominates in trade and nobody is able to promote new vehicles? Is money being controlled similarly like combustion engines need cruel oils that handicap our accessing options and labor effort? Why should human effort be suppressed by printed cash for accessing basic necessity when trade credit can be extended to points beyond recoverable repeatedly? How cash legal such context? Automate first our access (don’t rip us off), then trade.

By: 702decatur

702decatur — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:35:17 +0000

I kinda like his take on the “Petro Powers” countries like Dubai are totally dependent on oil money. They are trying to create a trouist destination, but this global crisis is bad timing for them. I think UA has built up a bubble and will pop with no one to save them.

By: bobsnowman

bobsnowman — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:37:45 +0000

To date, $656.1 billion dollars have been allocated to the war in Iraq by America. To comment on message boards you must have a second grade education

By: MajNorberg

MajNorberg — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:56:48 +0000

Why is the 800 billion dollars bailout such an issue when America spends 3-4 trillion per month in Iraq?…

By: Csaboska

Csaboska — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:23:42 +0000

Exporters always do badly at the beginning of a recession or depression, but then as production volumes and inventories fall, the importers actually suffer more – because they can no longer deficit spend.

By: bigphill424

bigphill424 — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:04:47 +0000

He’s an ECONOMIC historian, so that is to say his historical lens is that of finance. In a sense he is an economist with historical observances. He doesn’t work in a history department either. He works in harvard’s buisness shcool.