Thomas Friedman: This Isn’t Your Grandma’s Recession
Complete video at: fora.tv Author and journalist Thomas Friedman comments on the enormous depth of the financial crisis. “You put that much leverage, on that much globalization and wrap it in that much complexity and start it in America, and I tell you…Grandma never saw this before,” says Friedman. —– When Thomas Friedman was at Book Passage last fall to talk about Hot, Flat and Crowded, he agreed to return in the spring to discuss how environmental issues were being dealt with in the new administration. He contends that the green revolution will be the biggest innovation project in American history. Friedman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for the NY Times and the author of The World is Flat. – Book Passage Bookstore Thomas L. Friedman, a columnist for The New York Times, is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board. Friedman was bureau chief for The Times in Beirut and Jerusalem before writing, From Beirut to Jerusalem, which won the National Book Award for non-fiction. His book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree won the 2000 Overseas Press Club award for best nonfiction book on foreign policy. His latest work, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century, won the inaugural Goldman Sachs/Financial Times Business Book of the Year award. He has a BA in Mediterranean studies from Brandeis University and a Master of Philosophy degree in Modern Middle East studies from Oxford.
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a stupid canook…that figures eh!
Nice analogy.
This one time there was this crazy hippy being all like “dude, stop killin the Earth!” so I was like “go back to your jail cell, CHARLES MANSON! Your words are like murder against my ears!”
And then I added “this is a completely appropriate analogy!”
you cnooks are UNIFORMLY GULLIBLE,STUPID MORONS.
Yeah! Gullible just like ORANGES!
(..I replied to your laughable analogy and nothing else. No idea what you’re talking about.)
friedman is a putz schlemiel who needs more pie.
garyowen4ever can you shut the fuck up already, nobody wants to hear your stupid ass
This guy is a fairly good speaker.
garyowen4ever, add something of value, if you can
thomas ‘let them eat big macs’ friedman is still throwing out the same silly lines but its good to see the recession has neutered him somewhat.
Interesting view of the US as the centre and Russia and the Far east being the peripherary! I’m afriad that it is the west that is rapidly heading for the peripherary over the next 20 years
So what did we learn from this talk? nothing…. he basically said nothing
What a jack-off Thomas Friedman is! What a parasite on society this creep is!
“Really hard”? No, it’s easy, quit producing fiat money and leave the market alone. Sorted.
Read Dear Jane Austen (Hannon) if all the girls took this as their basic model of feminism – men wouldn’t have the incentive to behave in a manner that is anathema to that ethic – i.e. won’t be inclined to destroy the world for easy sex. Obviously in many countries this simply isn’t an option, women have few rights.
And if this is too moralistic, or whatever, for you – google Goleman Moyers and let the well informed consumer decide.
if it was easy sex they wouldn’t need to destroy the biosphere right? Okay, bit clumsy (all the more reason to google Moyers…) bit paradoxical – casual sex… blah blah people know.
Like you really know.
hey kids,,JOIN ALGORE’S WAFFEN YOUTH for free milk and cookies, when you see your parents committing sins against AGORE AND THE GREENS,,,RAT THEM OUT to your friendly SS OR GORESTAPPO officer at school, you’ll get a big green star on your chart and be eligible for a week at OBERSCHTUPPEN FRIEDMAN’S spy school where you will learn advanced note taking techniques on your neighbors and companies that DO NOT OBEY THE 5TH GREEN REICH. SEIG HEIL SEIG HEIL SEIG HEIL, MEIN EIN BERLINER ALGORE!
Why does anyone listen to this guy anymore? He’s got more worthless opinions than Tyra Banks. It scares the hell out of me that Obama invited him to the Jobs and Economic Growth Forum last December. I don’t want that lunatic anywhere near policymakers. Have people already forgotten that Friedman was one of the greatest propagandists for the invasion of Iraq?
do you have any idea how retarded you sound?
i’m trying so hard to to hear this guy out, if for no other reason than that his views are so popular. even when i agree with him though, he’s so annoying!
do you have any idea how gullible you are…….adios!
When an American tries to do the right thing and opens their heart to the world, the right wing Americans attack. People like this Guy and Al Gore are constantly attacked for trying to change the world and make it a better place. They are always personal attacks never with any credibility. What’s Dick Cheney & George Bush Sen. & Jun doing for the world, buying & selling oil stocks? – organizing some kickbacks on the Billions of American taxes they dumped in Iraq? -
you don’t even know what my views are, how can you say that?
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Heil Hitler
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Fucking Nazi piece of shit