dimelab dimelab: shrinking the gap between talk and action.

Markets Skeptical Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog

gathering market-skeptics (1); promoting free market skeptics (1).

New Deal 2.0 Tue 2009-11-03 20:07 EST

Roosevelt Institute Director and Senior Fellow Rob Johnson will lead Soros' $50 Million Effort

Rob Johnson, Director of the Economic Policy Initiative of the Roosevelt Institute, has been pegged to lead financier George Soros' $50 million effort to create an ``Institute for New Economic Thinking'', which will fund research, convene symposiums, and establish a journal -- all in the name of promoting free market skeptics and creating a new economic paradigm. To this end Soros is gathering market-skeptics this week, including Roosevelt Institute Braintruster and Nobel Prize-winner Joseph Stiglitz, George Akerlof, Michael Spence, and Sir James Mirrlees to start the conversation. ``Economics has failed not only to predict and explain what happened but has also failed to protect society,'' said Johnson in an article in Newsweek. ``That's what the crisis revealed. The paradigm has failed. There is no guidance.''

0; 50; effort; lead Soros; new dealing 2; Roosevelt Institute Director; Senior Fellow Rob Johnson.

Thu 2009-02-26 00:00 EST

Market Skeptics: *****Hyperinflation will begin in China and destroy the dollar*****

by Eric deCarbonnel; interesting but dubious argument; mish comments;

Begins; China; destroyed; Dollar; Hyperinflation; Markets Skeptical.