Tag Archives: Paul Krugman

Al and Paul agree

This article appeared a couple years ago on my less-than-hacker-proof and now-defunct blog, howtostopabankrun.com. By Joel Thurtell Ain’t it neat? Al and  Paul agree. Al is Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board who got it all wrong … Continue reading

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Leave the renmimbi alone!

By Joel Thurtell If you’d asked me a couple months ago to name the unit of Chinese currency, I’d have drawn a blank. It was all a big yuan. As near as I can tell, “renmimbi” and “yuan”can be used … Continue reading

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Canada’s banks

By Joel Thurtell I was pleased to see Nobel Prize-winning New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has discovered the benefits of banking in Canada. Finally. The rule here at JOTR is that we never gloat over other writers’ failings, since … Continue reading

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