EUROZONE/ CHINA / USA: Charlie Rose Interviews Historian Garton Ash.

CHARLIE ROSE TV : 35 minutes

Another interesting Charlie Rose interview...this time with historian Timothy Garton Ash.

Rose directs Ash to speculate about the economic and political future of the Eurozone, the diminishing role of the USA and the growing power of China.

Nothing discussed about Latin America or Eastern Europe...even though one area of Ash's specialty has been recent Eastern and Central Europe history.

Garton Ash is a less well known Oxford University colleague of neo-con historian Niall Ferguson.

EUROZONE: Markets Still In Limbo Over Fear Of Contagion.

NYTIMES/ Overview and Analysis/            Fear in the financial markets is rising again after a brief respite because of a belief that intertwined EU banks could cripple economic growth. Big banks in France and Germany hold billions in bonds from shaky neighbors like Spain, Portugal and Greece. A sure sign of insecurity, the LIBOR, is rising. “This bailout wasn’t done to help the Greeks; it was done to help the French and German banks,” claims conservative economic historian Niall Ferguson. “They’ve poured some water on the fire, but the fire has not gone out.”

Nobel Economist Krugman Wars With Neocon Historian Ferguson.

THE SUNDAY TIMES, UK.

There's a nasty row building between two commentators on global finance and economics, Nobel Prize winning professor Paul Krugman of Princeton and Harvard historian Niall Ferguson.

"It started as an argument about bond prices. But last week it blew up into a row about racism, printing money, spending our way out of recession, and the fate of the global economy..."

One pro-Krugman blogger wrote this about Ferguson:"Ferguson is truly pathetic.
There are few historians who are as hungry for attention as he. BTW, he’s the model for the character “Irwin” in Alan Bennett's “History Boys.” Check out the DVD and you’ll understand his neediness. His books aren’t that great either. Lot’s of recycled material from real historians of WWI."