"Take out the baseball bat on Paul Krugman"
Courtesy of Tim Iacono at The Mess That Greenspan Made
Economist Steven Roach of Morgan Stanley Asia has some not-so-kind words for economist Paul Krugman and his view that the Chinese currency should be allowed to strengthen considerably from its current level.
Says Roach: "America doesn’t have a China problem, it has a savings problem… We should take out the baseball bat on Paul Krugman. I mean I think that the advice is completely wrong …. We’re lashing out at China rather than tending to our own business".
According to this report, Krugman replied, "I’m a little surprised at Steve for saying that. What I said is actually based on pretty careful economic analysis. We have a world economy which is depressed by China artificially keeping its currency undervalued."
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Support to Steve Roach via Zero Hedge:
Hey Paul, what about the fact that the world would have been below a "depression" state, had China not been the defibrilator that kept the heart of the catatonic global economy beating for the past two years. Is there a chapter in the "Pretty Careful Economic Analysis" textbook on selective fact cherry-picking? Right, we figured. In the meantime the NYT’s potential "paywall" content is rapidly amortizing to the point where people will soon have absolutely no desire to pay for the NYT’s "expert" paid-for opinions. Which means Goldman is about to put the NYT on the conviction buy list.
