Friday, December 5th, 2008...9:41 am
Thomas Friedman: This Isn’t Your Grandma’s Recession
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He contends that the green revolution will be the biggest innovation project in American history. Friedman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for the NY Times and the author of The World is Flat. – Book Passage Bookstore Thomas L. Friedman, a columnist for The New York Times, is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board. Friedman was bureau chief for The Times in Beirut and Jerusalem before writing, From Beirut to Jerusalem.
25 Comments
December 7th, 2008 at 8:15 am
friedman is a putz schlemiel who needs more pie.
December 8th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Yeah! Gullible just like ORANGES!
(..I replied to your laughable analogy and nothing else. No idea what you’re talking about.)
December 9th, 2008 at 2:52 am
you cnooks are UNIFORMLY GULLIBLE,STUPID MORONS.
December 9th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Nice analogy.
This one time there was this crazy hippy being all like “dude, stop killin the Earth!” so I was like “go back to your jail cell, CHARLES MANSON! Your words are like murder against my ears!”
And then I added “this is a completely appropriate analogy!”
December 12th, 2008 at 3:25 am
a stupid canook…that figures eh!
December 14th, 2008 at 3:43 am
Nope, Canadian.
December 15th, 2008 at 12:21 am
are you a jap?
December 16th, 2008 at 1:14 am
Not really. Unlike Jews, the CO2 problem can’t be solved with burning :’(
December 18th, 2008 at 10:51 am
algore is the new ******………green is the new brown shirt of the GORESTAPO………..tom friedman is the new JOSEF GOEBBELS.
December 19th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
hey sunwing28, i think you have a good intention but do you really understand what a real “free market” is? or can you possibly picture what kind of economyi we would have if we did have “free market” or anything closer to “free market”?
December 20th, 2008 at 3:07 am
i would love to believe that. and know it was true lol. its what i think aswell.
December 21st, 2008 at 4:45 am
hes swaying too much it makes me nauseous…
December 23rd, 2008 at 2:56 pm
if it is not my grandma recession then who’s grandmas recession is it ?
December 24th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
you mean 20 million after Weimer republic style hyperinflation hits us or before ? Because when hyperinflation hits us that 20 mil will not buy you toilet paper , 2lbs of bread in Weimer republic was 399 trillion marks while before was only 3 marks similar to US pricing now .
December 28th, 2008 at 2:29 am
To me its just like the WMD scam. A contrived ‘emergency’ to dupe the public, whist somewhere someone rakes in the BIG BUCK$.
December 31st, 2008 at 8:10 am
Yes.
Maximum personal wealth 20 Million.
January 1st, 2009 at 10:34 am
This guy is dreaming.
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:49 am
Dude this recession is nothing at all.
America is a tough old bird; I bet we can make through another recession, or depression.
Just pay your bills and pray everything will be OK!
No worries right!?
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:40 am
if theres no companies left then there will be nothing for you to buy or do.
January 4th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
I would make changes in the law so that politicians cant be bought in future.
One more thing – break up the big companies and sell off the pieces, make a law prohibiting companies from becoming too big. Set a legal limit on personal wealth, using a sliding taxation scale to prevent massive accumulation of wealth.
January 6th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Fuck no – dont let anyone tamper with the consitution.
The economic problem was engineered by the central banks – its so obvious. Now, Americans are going to starve to death in great numbers – it might take a year or two – or it might happen next week.
The world needs to; jail the central bank cartel, seize all media assets from private hands and tell the truth, nationalise the central banks, re-elect academics and intellectuals.
January 6th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
You are exactly and absolutely correct.
All of this is engineered to do exactly what it’s doing.
January 9th, 2009 at 9:38 am
BS – this is crap. This is a planned depression and a clear robbery and destruction of the american economy by the fed. I do not attribute positive motives or have sympathy for th “complexity” of the issue. Derivatives were created by Paulson and crew to destruct the system. Glass steagal was repealed, globalization proceeded with, currency crisis fund destroyed, insanely low interest rates created. They knew exactly what they were doing, I will not let them off the hook neither should you.
January 12th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
It all begins with values. It was American values that ultimately caused it.
(The show Survivor is likely the best example of these values being packaged and sold to the general public.)
January 13th, 2009 at 2:26 am
I disagree; I think Friedman’s generally correct. He has a terrific way for making a complex point understandable with simple metaphors like shoveling money. I think Thomas Friedman is qualified to be a delegate to the Second Constitutional Convention.
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