New York Times Articles
Thomas Friedman is the "Foreign Affairs" columnist for The New York Times. Below are links to articles and other content on their site (registration required).
Other items of interest:
The Great Iceland Meltdown
Who knew? Who knew that Iceland was just a hedge fund with glaciers? Who knew?
If you’re looking for a single example of how the globalization of finance helped get us into this mess and how it will help get us out, you need look no further than British newspapers last week and their front-page articles about the number of British citizens, municipalities and universities — including Cambridge — that are in a tizzy today because they had savings parked in Icelandic banks, through online banking services like Icesave.co.uk.
As Dave Barry would say, I’m not makin’ this up.
On Sale Now
Listen to Tom Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum's National Teleforum Discussion with Readers from September 16th, 2011.
(53 min)
(53 min)
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