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- radison2, on 03/13/2009, -17/+44"Thomas Friedman: This isn't your Grandma's retarded pessimist"
This guy has no more of a clue than you or I. Flip a coin and you'll have a better prediction as to when or if the current financial mess will end. - oinonio, on 03/13/2009, -2/+29Hey Friedman! You don't know my grandma!
- 64705, on 03/13/2009, -4/+24Wait a minute. If you thought he was a tard after reading the first book, why did you read his second? Is this opposite day?
- superfusion, on 03/13/2009, -2/+15The world is not flat. It's spiky. (Richard Florida)
- JoeParanoid, on 03/13/2009, -1/+12I predicted this recession about 20 Friedmans ago.
- gllopc, on 03/13/2009, -1/+11You may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful house!
You may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful wife!
You may tell yourself
This is not my grandma's recession! - Vaiper, on 03/13/2009, -3/+13I watched the video twice just in case I missed it... But, no, he didn't claim to know when it would end. Did you watch a different video than I did? Link?
- Sraser, on 03/13/2009, -5/+15Did you really think things wouldn't get worse? Regardless of who was voted into congress?
The blame can't just be placed on your government, it has to be placed on the way North American society has functioned for the last 20 years. There is plenty of blame to go around, least of all to your countries current administration. - wendelgee2, on 03/13/2009, -16/+25That's your criticism? You call him a "tard"?
***** idiot. - clusterfudge69, on 03/13/2009, -9/+17Before anyone watch's this video go read this:
http://www.reason.com/news/show/33130.html
It explains what an utter and useless tool Thomas Friedman really is.
He's trying to explain that people who are supposed to know didn't, but somehow he knows?
Buried. - fluxion, on 03/13/2009, -1/+8good, cuz my grandma[s] went through one HELL of a depression.
- Jehutes, on 03/13/2009, -2/+8That may be the case, but no where in the video did he predict when the mess will end. He was just stating observations about the current situation, not trying to alleviate it.
You should watch the video next time. - jarjarwang, on 03/13/2009, -1/+7Into the zoo again, after the monkey's gone!
Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground! - AlKo, on 03/13/2009, -1/+7Same as it ever was...
- laborcszanto, on 03/13/2009, -32/+38I've read both of Friedmans books and he's a tard. He hasn't clue what he's talking about.
- Dr0d84, on 03/13/2009, -2/+7the more i read about this fallout and the more desperate i become looking for work the more scarier this is starting to to get. If you think about it, its just the beginning.
- inactive, on 03/13/2009, -2/+7People give him far more credence than they should.
- gfryesc, on 03/13/2009, -5/+10he's right. our grandmas have triple the fortitude we do. We've lost our self reliance and become dependent on government to fix our problems. back then they knew how to overcome financial challenge, mostly by not engaging in overtly risky behavior that leads to such challenges. friedman is a tool.
- PrestoVivace, on 03/13/2009, -1/+6Friedman is a fool
http://mtblog.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2009/ ... - thegrantman, on 03/13/2009, -1/+5Same as it ever was.
- atm259, on 03/13/2009, -3/+7WAIT, HE'S TELLING US WE NEED HELP???
HOW DID HE KNOW??? - organic, on 03/13/2009, -2/+5Remind me again why anyone listens to this clown?
- meson2k, on 03/13/2009, -3/+6Correction: "I've read both of Friedman's books and 'his opinions are tardy'."
IMHO, Friedman is a journalistic surfer; catching the wave of popular opinion to report about whatever people want to hear.
When reading his articles and books, I feel it's best to consider him as a documentarian of history and current affairs and discard any attempts by him at predicting the future. - reddevil3, on 03/14/2009, -2/+5Friedman is an idiot. I can't believe so many people look up to him. Matt Taibbi (of Rolling Stone) hilariously destroys him in this piece:
http://www.nypress.com/article-19271-flat-n-all-th ...
Some choice quotes:
"Where does a man who needs his own offshore drilling platform just to keep the east wing of his house heated get the balls to write a book chiding America for driving energy inefficient automobiles? Where does a guy whose family bulldozed 2.1 million square feet of pristine Hawaiian wilderness to put a Gap, an Old Navy, a Sears, an Abercrombie and even a ***** Foot Locker in paradise get off preaching to the rest of us about the need for a “Green Revolution”? Well, he’ll explain it all to you in 438 crisply written pages for just $27.95, $30.95 if you have the misfortune to be Canadian. "
"Approach-and-rhetoric wise, however, it’s the same old Friedman, a tireless social scientist whose research methods mainly include lunching, reading road signs, and watching people board airplanes. "
"This is Friedman’s life: He flies around the world, eats pricey lunches with other rich people and draws conclusions about the future of humanity by looking out his hotel window and counting the Applebee’s signs. " - moothemagiccow, on 03/14/2009, -0/+2Having a lot of bloggers who agree with you doesn't make you right.
- firebirdx01, on 03/14/2009, -0/+2Leverage! Globalization! Complexity! I am clearly saying a bunch of ***** but I sound smart anyway.
- inactive, on 03/15/2009, -0/+2Especially stock up on tinfoil.
- jimbo92107, on 03/13/2009, -4/+5Who seems better informed, Friedman or Krugman?
I prefer the man whose head is not flat.
In Krugman we trust. - Groovydoo, on 03/16/2009, -0/+1True, but referencing actual documents or tech or government white papers do.
- reeds1999, on 03/16/2009, -0/+1You are correct! Most Ponzi schemes work quite well for a while.
- mrbradg, on 03/15/2009, -0/+1Because he didn't read any of them....
- whiteyMcBrown, on 03/14/2009, -1/+2Whoa... all this Friedman hate. I happen to think he's pretty good. For anyone who doesn't know, he's a writer for the NY Times and he's mainly dealt with business and foreign affairs. He's won a couple Pulitzer prizes also.
This crisis is pretty huge. And just because all our genius Wall-Street guys and pundits didn't predict it doesn't mean we throw away our genius Wall-Street guys and pundits. These are guys, remember, who did actually make millions and billions of dollars earlier with their math, investing, and trading. They actually made things work quite well for a while. It's become quite fashionable to beat up on them; but everyone giving them a hard time (I'm looking at you, Jon Stewart) also didn't see it coming. This is like a rocket blowing up on its way to space and we decide that now we know just as much as the rocket scientists. Everything looks pretty simple in hindsight, but no one had that a few months ago. - inactive, on 03/13/2009, -2/+3I would take both their statements with entire shakers of salt.
- kesin, on 03/13/2009, -2/+3because hes a journalist? Remind me why I just responded to your idiotic post.
- vanguardanon, on 03/14/2009, -0/+1Keep following Friedman and his idiot and inaccurate metaphors that form his "<insert problem here> for Dummies" style and you'll learn to hate him too. He's not about good reporting or insightful opinion pieces, he's just peddling books to the lowest common denominator.
The guy is a fool who pretends to understand far more than he does. He parachutes into an are that he doesn't understand and writes a book after a few weeks of research that's nothing but a bunch of cliches and lame anecdotes. - odigity, on 03/13/2009, -4/+5Just because he didn't give the reasoning behind his conclusion, doesn't mean the conclusion is wrong. I happen to agree with it. Also, like @laborcszanto, I'm way too lazy to give my reasoning right now. Read the book. If you disagree, well, you're a tard.
- Nasterisk, on 03/14/2009, -1/+2My first wife was 'tarded. She's a pilot now
- mydjtl, on 03/13/2009, -2/+3Hopefully some Socialsts will step up like during the Great Depressions in order to bring us great things like the minimum wage and the 40 hour work week...
- Chompy, on 03/13/2009, -1/+2My grandma's recession was the Great Depression, and no, this isn't gonna be the Great Depression Part Deux.
- miffelplix, on 03/14/2009, -0/+1Same guy who championed the Iraq War. Never had an original thought in his life, merely parrots others. Buried.
- Sraser, on 03/15/2009, -0/+1No, the blame should not be put on the government. It should be put on the people who thought it was A-O-*****-Kay to spend money they just didn't have. Of COURSE you can't afford a ***** $750,000 house on a $40,000 a year income.
People just eat this ***** up though, and you know what the worst thing is? Everybody just expects the government to fix this *****, without ANY significant change in lifestyle. If we all just want to point a finger at the government and continue this ***** up mass-consumption-orgy of a lifestyle then we will continue to fall deeper into this hell hole. - piggy, on 03/14/2009, -1/+2Friedman primarily talks about himself. Then to make it seem as if every work isn't an autobiography, he somehow relates his experiences to current events.
- urgeigh, on 03/14/2009, -0/+1Yeah because you know, there's no real reason to be alarmed at this point yet... /s
- moothemagiccow, on 03/14/2009, -1/+2First thing I thought when I saw the headline "wait, isn't Friedman a tard?"
- sonoran, on 03/13/2009, -1/+2The situation is perpetuated by commentary like this. Right now home prices are about where they would have been had they appreciated at the long term average. What's keeping us in this situation is the momentum of pessimism.
- inactive, on 03/14/2009, -0/+0It was very upbeat the news,never seen the nightly news so positive.
Maybe the word is getting around... psychological manipulation of the news
What Bush and company used for prepping for war, Obama is using for the economy -
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