{"id":229,"date":"2009-03-30T10:48:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T14:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=229"},"modified":"2009-03-30T12:23:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T16:23:43","slug":"geithner-vs-krugman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/03\/30\/geithner-vs-krugman\/","title":{"rendered":"Geithner vs. Krugman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/photos\/full-time\/hurley_white_65w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"65\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>School of Law Professor <a title=\"Cornelius Hurley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/banking\/hurley.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cornelius Hurley<\/a>, director of the <a title=\"Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/morincenter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law<\/a>, says the onging debate between Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and columnist and Nobel winner Paul Krugman is revealing.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Geithner vs. Krugman debate is interesting.\u00a0 At least we can be confident that Krugman hopes Geithner suceeds, unlike others with which the administration has locked horns recently.\u00a0 Krugman&#8217;s characterization of the toxic asset purchases as &#8216;cash for trash&#8217; will, however, be valid if the so-called PPIPs end up overpaying for bank assets.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Cornelius Hurley, 617-353-5427, <a href=\"mailto:ckhurley@bu.edu\">ckhurley@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School of Law Professor Cornelius Hurley, director of the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law, says the onging debate between Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and columnist and Nobel winner Paul Krugman is revealing. &#8220;The Geithner vs. Krugman debate is interesting.\u00a0 At least we can be confident that Krugman hopes Geithner suceeds, unlike others with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[216,675,692,693,655],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}