tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post952181531290343580..comments2024-03-27T06:56:10.255+00:00Comments on Broad Oak Magazine: A message to Peter HitchensUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-64037080442715255092008-10-12T16:06:00.000+01:002008-10-12T16:06:00.000+01:00Nick, he usually impresses me even though he's idi...Nick, he usually impresses me even though he's idiosyncratic (perhaps because).<BR/><BR/>Anon: yes, one of many farsighted campaigning websites, mostly American.<BR/><BR/>Ed - I think he had his mind on other aspects of our misgovernment. Besides, I think many of our British journos think they can't understand finance and leave it alone.Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09410040031410954403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-86674238945192569162008-10-12T14:51:00.000+01:002008-10-12T14:51:00.000+01:00The reason the likes of Hitchens don't see the obv...The reason the likes of Hitchens don't see the obvious in terms of the predictability of the crisis is that they are essentially insiders to the bubble- albeit in a cossetted corner of it. Reporters report, which means they simply reflect what is understood at the time they are writing- having done that for ten years while the bubble grew up must mean it had a feeling of being natural. If you're consciously outside the bubble, you see it as having roots in actions- not as a natural phenomenon. I always felt the unnaturalness of it, partly because I my nature insists on having a reason for everything, and also because I didn't partake much of the bubble's comforts.ed thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04577519219876759633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-68805384614528816032008-10-12T14:49:00.000+01:002008-10-12T14:49:00.000+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.ed thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04577519219876759633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-54898614915845406522008-10-12T10:48:00.000+01:002008-10-12T10:48:00.000+01:00Direct him to web sites like Financial sense.com, ...Direct him to web sites like Financial sense.com, they have been anticipating this for years. In fact the way things have developed, one might be forgiven for thinking they might have written the script.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-80463139224228455692008-10-12T09:46:00.000+01:002008-10-12T09:46:00.000+01:00great comment, it's amazing how someone as skeptic...great comment, it's amazing how someone as skeptical and alert as Hitchens could be so simple-minded on this one<BR/><BR/>he's an impressive but odd chap, isn't he: I met him 30 years ago and he left a strange impression<BR/><BR/>EK apparently conducted a lengthy correspondence with him a few year back <BR/><BR/>and then there is the bizarre 'spoof PH blogger' incident of 2006<BR/><BR/>but despite all he seems to have the power for good in his knapsackNick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.com