OWS: Heated altercation on the '1% ' -- Fareed Zakaria with Jeff Sachs and Niall Ferguson - 10/30/11 On YouTube.
Note -- criticisms and facts about about Niall Ferguson to keep in mind whenever listening to/reading him (from Wikipedia): Ferguson supported the Iraq war and isn't necessarily opposed to future incursions in the world. 2005 - Ferguson called for replacing Medicare and Medicaid with a Medical Security System that would provide health insurance vouchers to all citizens. In 2007, Ferguson was appointed as an Investment Management Consultant by GLG Partners. GLG is a UK-based hedge fund management firm. As a scholar -- Fellow academics have questioned Ferguson's commitment to scholarship. Benjamin Wallace-Wells, an editor of The Washington Monthly, comments that "The House of Rothschild remains Ferguson's only major work to have received prizes and wide acclaim from other historians. Research restrains sweeping, absolute claims: Rothschild is the last book Ferguson wrote for which he did original archival work, and his detailed knowledge of his subject meant that his arguments for it couldn't be too grand."[50] John Lewis Gaddis, a renowned Cold War era historian, characterized Ferguson as ... being "unpersuasive". Gaddis goes on to state that "several of Ferguson's claims, moreover, are contradictory".[51] ...Krugman has argued that Ferguson's view is "resurrecting 75-year old fallacies" and full of "basic errors". He has also stated that Ferguson is a "poseur" who "...hasn't bothered to understand the basics, relying on snide comments and surface cleverness to convey the ...
Keywords: Zakaria, 1%, 99%, Occupy, OWS, jeffreysachs, niallferguson, occupytogether
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