Paul Krugman and Niall Ferguson debate the economic future of the global economy with CNN's Fareed Zakaria

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1. i came here for a debate with Niall Ferguson?? misleading title
2. 800 billion is not enough. xP. Am I the only one here that thinks Krugman is fucking insane?
3. Niall Ferguson?????
4. If the U.S had followed China's stimulus plan, it would have spent around $1.75 trillion in the stimulus (predominately capital spending) $800 billion was no where near enough.
5. well, having an informed public has always been a problem for societies hasn't it? it's really the human condition that we want to believe everything is fine and that our way of life will go on forever. people like yourself all over the internet give me hope, but i certainly need to find like-minds in my local community.
6. "is there something specific that causes investors to lose confidence?" There is no single event that causes a flight from a bond-market. In Greece, massive mismanagement and a quasi-default, built a risk-premium that kept adding to their borrowing costs, compounding the problem of course. The scary part is, by the time the public knows there is a problem, it is usually too late to solve it in any responsible way, so it destabilizes the country politically as well as economically. =/
7. -- continued -- . I guess i'm asking: is the tipping point when "enough" people *believe* the debt-servicing to be an issue?
8. hmm, your comment gets to a question i've been percolating in my mind for a while now, maybe you have some ideas? . is there something specific that causes investors to lose confidence? ie. if the answer is "that the gov't won't be able to keep it's promises", does that mean that people stop buying bonds [and by definition showing their lack of confidence] when they start believing that the debt-servicing will consume the budget?... 
9. you know who else won a Nobel prize: Myron S. Scholes and Robert C. Merton... enough said?... P.S. that was big of you to condescend her instead of ask her why she feels that way.
10. i think the hate comes from his approach. he comes across as very cocky, condescending, and more interested in winning arguments and proving his superiority. Rather than as a "discusser" of ideas and humble student willing to still learn new things. [interestingly, that description reminds me of why i can't stand Richard Dawkins either]
11. These moronic right wing idiots have proven wrong constantly Where is inflation? Go to hell you morons.
12. Brilliant and untrustworthy. Well said.
13. Krugman....the idiot who brought down the world .
14. hey don't put up false titles, jackass. No Niall Ferguson in this video. We all know how Krugman sounds talking to an interviewer.
15. Of course not because you wouldn't know where to start; it's challenging disputing facts and empirical evidence with myth and fabrication. 
16. Anyways. You entitled to your opinion and I don't dare to change it. 
17. Also, explain this to me dipshit. Why has there been a semi-public feud this past year between the reps chosen by the banks on the board of directors and the chairman and board of governors? According to you they should all be on the same page because they all rep the private banks. Instead, Bernanke has overruled the banking heads because he doesn't believe their recommendations are best for public monetary policy, only good for banks. Why?
18. LOL! You appear to be a sad casualty of the Ron Paul school of Libertarian Conspiratorial Loons. Well when you get done, don't forget that David Ickes finishing school treatment where you learn that the bankers that control the world are all secret lizard people too. Or maybe you've inhaled all of Ickes' wisdom already. In any case, you do a fine job discrediting yourself and obviously need no additional help with that.
19. WRONG. THe chairman of the Federal Reserve is secretely selected by the same private banks, that later is aproved by president. President and its cabinet is 90% of the same bankers that used to work for the same private banks that control federal reserve. 
20. It is NOT a private institution. It is private-public with its top members appointed by the president. Private banks elect their own representatives to sit on its board of directors to provide input to the chairman. But it's still the chairman and the board of governors who decide and set monetary policy. Board of Governors is a federal agency with members appointed by president. The FR acts as extension of US gov to set monetary policy. Influence of private banks is limited.