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Argentina Offers 66.3% Haircut in $20 Bln Bond Swap — iMarketNews
Clark Hoyt, the NYT public editor, adjudicates Krugman vs Sorkin, comes down in favor of Krugman — NYT
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Boone and Johnson, having brought down Greece, move on to Portugal — Baseline Scenario
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The link for the Hoyt article doesn’t work.
sorry, fixed
The spat between the two NYT columnists makes me respect Sorkin much less. Even as a casual reader of Krugman’s column and blog, I came away under the impression he was in favor of nationalizing banks in deep trouble, vs. pumping money into them, both because of moral hazard and turning them into zombie banks (as happened in Japan).
Advocating nationalizing the entire US banking system would be a VERY BIG deal and I would not have missed that if Krugman did advocate it. Sorkin seems to be arguing that he didn’t mis-categorize Krugman’s position, it’s all just a matter of semantics.
Well, I beg to differ. Sorkin is paid to read the news and analyze and comment on them; I’m not. And if I know the difference between what he said Krugman said and what Krugman actually said, he definitely should know it. Just come out and apologize already. We all make mistakes, the point is we learn from them and not repeat it. To deny our mistakes is much much worse than the actual mistakes, in most cases.