Niall Ferguson : 100% certain Greece will default

Niall Ferguson , a visiting professor at the London School of Economics Professor of history at Harvard University and best selling author
Niall Ferguson agrees 50 percent with what Larry Summers said yesterday that the US is facing a lost decade but he does not agree with his Keynesian remedy of more stimulus , Niall Ferguson also says that he is 100% sure that Greece will default
the debt crisis amongst the PIIGs has moved from being a public finance problem on the periphery (of Europe ) to be a major institutional conflict between the biggest economies in the European and the European central bank union Niall Ferguson says
the German position has moved the driver here is the German voter he added they are fed up of writing blank checks for the rest of Europe , if the German voter gets what he wants a whole bunch of German banks could blow up cause they are the major one exposed to the Greek debt he explained

Glenn Beck The Coming Insurrection 2/11/ 2010

From 2010
The Coming Insurrection. What is Coming in Europe and How To Prevent it From Happening in America. Guests Tonight: Authors Niall Ferguson, Brian Doherty and Damon Vickers of Nine Points Capital Partners

Niall Ferguson : The Grand Strategy of Detente

Speaker: Professor Niall Ferguson
Chair: Professor Arne Westad
This event was recorded on 18 January 2011 in Old Theatre, Old Building
'Nixon goes to China' shattered the façade of Communist unity and dug the United States out of the hole it found itself in at the end of the 1960s. Critics have seen Nixon and Kissinger's policy as morally compromised, but was it actually the key to America's victory in the Cold War? Niall Ferguson is Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs at LSE IDEAS for 2010-11.

Paul Krugman vs Niall Ferguson - Stimulus vs Austerity

Krugman v Ferguson - Stimulus v Austerity - The Third Depression Can Be Averted

The debate over stimulus, or Keynesian economics, opposed to austerity measures has been debated ad nauseam. This is a compilation of cuts that reflect part of the debate by perceived experts in economic theory. Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize winning author and economist for the New York Times. Niall Ferguson is a Harvard Professor in economics. The two make arguments in favor of their view of economic theory.

PART 2 Audasity : The debate over stimulus, or Keynesian economics, opposed to austerity measures has been debated ad nauseam. Camera Tricks This is a compilation of cuts that reflect part of the debate by perceived experts in economic theory. Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize winning author and economist for the New York Times. Niall Ferguson is a Harvard Professor in economics. The two make arguments in favor of their view of economic theory.

Niall Ferguson : China Bail Out the EU

Niall Ferguson : China Bail Out the EU , CNN's Fareed Zakaria and Niall Ferguson and the FT's Gillian Tett on the EU crisis and possible help from China.

Niall Ferguson: Chinese More Committed to Capitalism

October 22, 2010 -- In a panel about getting America back from the depths of economic despair at The Daily Beast's Innovators Summit in New Orleans, Niall Ferguson, historian and Harvard Business School professor, told Sir Harold Evans that, "The Chinese are more committed to capitalism than we are."

Niall Ferguson : Calling a Double-Dip Is Going Too Far

Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Harvard University historian Niall Ferguson talks about the outlook for the U.S. and global economy. The August payrolls report may show the U.S. economy lost 105,000 jobs, the third straight monthly decline, according to the median forecast of 81 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News. Ferguson speaks in Cernobbio, Italy, with Francine Lacqua on Bloomberg Television's "Global Connection."

Stimulus vs Austerity , Niall Ferguson vs Paul Krugman

Niall Ferguson: Paul Krugman's Advice Will Lead Us Down A Road To Ruin

Nial Fergusson : well let me make clear that as far as I am concerned this rivalry is purely unintellectual one it's not so much within economics , I am not an economist I am a historian it's more of a debate between an economist and a historian about what the lessons of the great depression are ...and that's in my view what all this is all about ...I leave all personal consideration aside I do not think we could be best buddies ......"this is a political problem Niall Fergusson noted and until Washington has its mind focused but yet more bad economic news I do not think there's gonna be any change to that situation .we are fiscally Gridlocked .., republicans want tax cuts democrats want to spend more money and the result is deficit after deficit after deficit.....

Niall Ferguson: The US Has 6 Years Before Debt Payments Surpass Defense Spending

The Aspen Times reports:

And American politicians don't have a sense of urgency, Ferguson contended. They feel the country can limp along for another 20 years or so in its current financial health without making tough decisions about fiscal policy. He believes they are wrong. The federal government's debt has grown so large in the past decade that the United States will inevitably devote an increasing amount of taxes to it. Meanwhile it's facing a greater burden through the Medicare and Social Security programs as Baby Boomers age. It's also currently fighting two wars. All that while revenues have plummeted in the recession.

“If you really want to see when an empire is getting vulnerable, the big giveaway is when the costs of serving the debt exceed the cost of the defense budget,” Ferguson said. That will happen in the United States within the next six years, he predicted.

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Niall Ferguson vs Paul Krugman on Fareed Zakarias GPS CNN July 04, 2010

Economist Paul Krugman is a proponent of a strong economic stimulus now. On Fareed Zakaria's GPS.
Niall Ferguson Business Prof at Harvard sees a different solution to the U.S. economy from Paul Krugman.