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Noen republikanere tror denne mannen forsøkte å konstruere en finanskrise i 2004 for å ødelegge for president George W. Bush. Foto: Scanpix/AFP
Var finanskrisen nøye timet til å ødelegge for Republikanerne?
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Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman NY Times
En stor konspirasjon
Finanskrisen har skapt en ny gullalder for konspirasjonsteorier.
Paul Krugman, som nylig vant Nobelprisen i økonomi, skriver spalten Conscience of a Liberal i The New York Times. Her forteller han om hvordan enkelte republikanere tror finanskrisen er preget av konspirasjon mot den amerikanske høyresiden:
It's a Conspiracy, I Tell You
The folks at Crooked Timber are having some fun with right-wing bloggers who say things like this:
«Why the crescendo of economic collapse right before the election? Why didn't the media and congress act just as concerned some time ago or wait until sometime after the election to go into crisis mode? The timing of the current financial crisis seems too planned and calculating to be just a coincidence. Polls show that people's number one concern right now is the economy and that for the most part, voters believe Democrats are somewhat more likely to help with the economy. Could it be that the liberal media and those in Congress, knowing that, is blaring the bad economic news from the rooftops in order to manipulate voters into voting for a Democrat? If so, it won't be the first time.»
But why should we be surprised? Before the 2004 election, there was a lot of talk on the right about how George Soros would engineer a financial crisis to swing the election:
«Here's the real worry: Could the master currency trader manipulate the financial markets to create a panic, collapsing the stock market or the U.S. dollar on the eve of the November election?»
Still, these are all marginal people, aren't they? Saying this kind of thing, surely, would get you shunned by the sensible news media. Except it doesn't. Just over a month ago the Washington Post gave Donald Luskin, who was one of the main proponents of the Evil Soros Conspiracy theory, space on the front page of its Outlook section to explain that the economy was doing OK.
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