Niall Ferguson

WATCH: One Direction Claims That They Are, In Fact, A Boy Band

The Huffington Post | Crystal Bell | Posted 05.30.2012

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One Direction wants to set one thing straight: Unlike the boy bands of yesteryear (RIP *NSYNC), they don't dance. Maybe there's an occasional fist pum...

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Ferguson: Krugman May Be Right, 'Very Large Debts Are Sustainable'

Business Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Business News, Debt-to-Gdp, U.S. Debt, Paul Krugman, Niall Ferguson, Niall Ferguson Paul Krugman, Business News

Unless countries get control of their ballooning debts, Ferguson has argued, we will be headed for crisis after crisis. And Ferguson remains convinced...

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Chanos Crash: Timing China's Financial Meltdown

Janet Tavakoli | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Michael Pettis, James Chanos, Gordon C. Chang, Muddy Waters, China-Crash, Niall Ferguson, Edward C. Chancellor, James Grant, China Economy, Gmo, Business News

China is becoming a version of the U.S., but it's the version that builds lots of Penn Centrals in record time to connect slapped together empty cities before going bankrupt.

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Favorite Books On Our Radar

Posted 01.02.2012

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We get so many books in the mail, you wouldn't believe. I know, your heart bleeds for us. Most of them, to be brutal yet honest, merit little more tha...

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What Decline of Western Civilization?

Harlan Green | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Jared Diamond, Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest, West Decline, Power Decline, U.S. Decline, Western Power Decline, Business News

Dr. Ferguson's theme isn't new. Root causes of the rise and fall of western civilizations were earlier explored by UCLA Professor Jared Diamond in his books Guns, Germs, and Steel, and Collapse in far more convincing fashion.

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WATCH: Why The West Is Losing Out To The Rest

Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: Video, The West and Rest, Niall Ferguson, The Great Divergence, Economy, Civilization: The West and the Rest, Western Society, TED Talks, The Six Killer Apps, Civilization, Books News

Historian Niall Ferguson discussed "the six killer apps" of prosperity in his recent TED talk. These "apps" refer to certain ideas--competition, sc...

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Niall Ferguson, Defender of the One Percent

Mark Engler | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Protests, #Occupytogether, Niall Ferguson, Occupy Wall Street, We Are the 99%, Wall Street, #Occupywallstreet, Video, Politics News

Notwithstanding the facts he cites about decreasing social mobility in America, Ferguson clearly believes that the top one percent has earned its station in life -- that Wall Street traders have succeeded through grit, intelligence, and determination.

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'Depression' Again Being Used To Describe Economic Landscape

Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: European Debt Crisis, Sovereign Debt, Video, Pimco, Nouriel Roubini, Kleinwort Benson, Niall Ferguson, Societe Generale, Long Depression, "Japanization", Stimulus, Austerity, Great Depression, Business News

(Mike Dolan) - You know it's grim when the prevailing debate among economists and historians is whether the world economy faces the "Great" depres...

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Meet 7 Celebrity Professors Teaching At Britain's Controversial New University

Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: Steve Jones, AC Grayling, Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Niall Ferguson, David Cannadine, College News

The controversial and incredibly expensive (at least for British standards) New College of the Humanities has lined up an imposing array of academics ...

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Top UK Academics Form New University, Want Rival To Oxbridge

AP | By GREGORY KATZ | Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: AC Grayling, New College of the Humanities, Oxford, Niall Ferguson, Cambridge, Richard Dawkins, College News

LONDON -- A group of prominent British academics said Sunday they are starting a private liberal arts university in London to rival the country's elit...

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Bigger Problem: Jobs Crisis Or Rising Food Prices?

Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Gas Prices, Jobs Crisis, Niall Ferguson, Inflation, Biggest Economic Problem, Developing Inflation, Global Recovery, Krugman, Poll, Food Prices, Economist, Tradeoff Inflation Unemployment, Business News

Global policymakers are in a bind: deal with inflation or tackle the unemployment crisis? World food prices have risen 36 percent in the last year...

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Fed's $900 Billion Program Gets Slammed Conservatives, Investors

The Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interest Rates, Jim Chanos, Niall Ferguson, Cliff Asness, Inflation, Economic Crisis, Business News, Quantitative Easing, Federal Reserve, E21, Ben Bernanke, Dan Senor, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, James Grant, Business News

Adding their voices to the chorus of criticism of the Federal Reserve, a group of academics, analysts, GOP strategists, hedge fund managers and publis...

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Innovation: Leading The Great American Comeback

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: University of Toronto, Debt, Gary Shapiro, Bureau of Labor Statistics, The New Republic, Free Trade, H1B Visas, Duke University, Vivek Wadhwa, Council of Economic Advisers, Facebook, Barack Obama, Deficit, USA Today, Innovation Movement, Harvard University, Midterm Elections, Apple, Gallup, Niall Ferguson, Iphone, Richard Florida, Entrepreneurship, Consumer Electronics Association, Silicon Valley, Google, Great Depression, Slidepollajax, Small Business, Small Business America, Business News

If we want a strong economy we need to do something about it. We need to reverse course and try another strategy. I suggest one based on innovation of entrepreneurs, rather than new federal spending on government jobs.

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Aspen Ideas Festival Speakers Dinner -- What We Learned This Year

Lynda Resnick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aspen Institute, Greg Mortenson, Lynda Resnick, Barbra Streisand, Aspen Ideas Festival, Niall Ferguson, Arianna Huffington, Rick Warren, Style News

Every year, my husband and I open our doors for the thought leaders in the Aspen Ideas Festival. At our dinner, I always give a little speech outlining what I have learned from the sessions I attended. Here are some highlights from this year.

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Aspen Ideas Festival: Ferguson, Gergen & Zuckerman Fear-monger on Deficits

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 1937 Recession, Infrastructure Investment, Depression, Aspen Ideas Festival, David Gergen, Mortimer Zuckerman, Deficits, Niall Ferguson, Lynda Resnick, Jobs, Deficit Hawks, Recession, Double Dip, Fiscal Policy, Politics News

If the government doesn't create demand right now, then America is heading back into recession. That should have been a view represented more squarely -- and debated -- at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

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Henry Louis Gates, Paul Farmer, And Other Harvard Profs Suggest Summer Reading Picks For Undergrads

The Harvard Crimson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Summer Reading, Harvard, Harvard University, Paul Farmer, Niall Ferguson, Books, Henry Louis Gates, Harvard Professors, Books News

While most high school students are assigned a list of books to read over the summer, undergraduates aren't required to do much at all during the summ...

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U.S. Allies: We Want Space

John Feffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Turkey, Niall Ferguson, United Kingdom, Japan, David Cameron, World News

"I need a little space." When lovers utter these words, it's usually a bad sign for the relationship. They feel suffocated. They're reexamining their...

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Jaipur Literary Festival Reflects Growing Literary Scene In India

The New York Times | VIKAS BAJAJ | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alexander McCall Smith, Vikram Chandra, Indian Literature, Authors, Niall Ferguson, South Asia, India, Books, Hindi, Jaipur, Jaipur Literary Festival, Indian Authors, Books News

"Our worlds are growing, and our markets are growing, but they are just beginning to grow," said Ms. Sarkar, who grew up in India but studied and work...

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Morgan Stanley CEO Calls for More Regulation of Wall Street at Vanity Fair-Bloomberg Event

Katya Wachtel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack was cheekily ambushed by Bloomberg's Margaret Brennan Wednesday night.

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Niall Ferguson: China's Decade

ft.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Niall Ferguson, Asian Markets, Financial Crisis, U.S. Recession, Credit Crisis, China Economy, China, Business News

By the end of the decade the western world could only look admiringly at the speed with which the Chinese government had responded to the breathtaking...

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Niall Ferguson: Economic Weakness Is U.S.'s Biggest Security Threat

newsweek.com | Niall Ferguson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Security, Debt, Niall Ferguson, Recession, Economy, National Deficit, Business News

Call it the fractal geometry of fiscal crisis. If you fly across the Atlantic on a clear day, you can look down and see the same phenomenon but on fou...

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'Poseur' Vs. 'Patronizing': The War Between Paul Krugman

Times of London | Matthew Lynn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ferguson Inflation, Krugman Inflation, Niall Ferguson, Krugman vs. Ferguson, Paul Krugman, War Between Economists, Inflation Debate, Business News

One of them is a "poseur". The other is "patronising". One suffers from "verbal diarrhoea". The other is a "whiner". A bust-up on the set of High S...

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Why My Comparing Obama to Felix the Cat Is Not Racist

Niall Ferguson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Political News, Obama Racism, Obama Felix the Cat, Felix the Cat, Racism, Niall Ferguson, Financial TImes, Media News, Barack Obama, Politics News

So it's racist to compare President Obama with Felix the Cat? Oh dear, the seemingly dead body of political correctness just twitched. Let's try logic, shall we?

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Financial Times Columnist: Obama Like Felix The Cat — Black And Lucky

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Financial Times' Niall Ferguson Tuesday compared President Obama to Felix the Cat, saying that, like Obama, the cartoon cat was black and lucky. ...

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Finance for Dummies

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Msnbc, Hbo, Politics, Cnn, Wall Street, Pbs, Joe Queenan, Niall Ferguson, Ben Bernanke, Dylan Ratigan, Business, Eliot Spitzer, Bill Maher, Economy, Business News

All of the eagerly professed ignorance of the Fed's operations begs the question: What is it about anything that has to do with money, finance or economics that enables otherwise thinking people to plead total cluelessness?

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