Who is this respected and well known individual?
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Who is this respected and well known individual?
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GM Kenneth Rogoff.
Really?
Yes, really Kenneth Rogoff. He and I used to be about the same age, but has gotten old.
You can find Kenny Rofoff at Wikopedia or the Harvard University website. That is truly him. Ot’s amazing how many truly great chess players gave up chess.
Ken Rogoff. Chess GM, currently an economics professor at Harvard. Former Cheif economist for the International Monetary Fund. One of the top 5 US chess players during his prime.
Ken Rogoff is in the news today in connection with the current banking bailout, and its possible international repercussions. He was one of three panelists on this morning’s “On Point” radio show, first of two hours devoted to the bailout.
He and Professor James K. Galbraith of U.T. Austin, son of the famous economist John Kenneth Galbraith, traded different viewpoints for much of the show’s final 40 minutes. Despite what you might expect politically from Galbraith being at Texas and Rogoff at Harvard, Galbraith generally believes that today’s crisis is emblematic of our capitalism having created The Predator State, while Rogoff took the more conservative view that since the US financial system has been “great for the past 25 years”, one “shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater” and “become like France” (quotes from the show, exactly midway).
But Ken is far from saying “the fundamentals are sound”, however.
Here is a page with his recent essays (translated into several languages), and already back in February he led with, “As the United States’ epic financial crisis continues to unfold, one can only wish that US policymakers were half as good at listening to advice from developing countries as they are at giving it. Americans don’t seem to realize that their “sub-prime” mortgage meltdown has all too much in common with many previous post-1945 banking crises throughout the world…”
With Congress taking crucial votes this week and the turmoil affecting House and Senate races as well as the presidential election, maybe it’s relevant to ask which skills are most helpful for judging candidates and teams they might assemble: field-dressing a moose, shooting better than 37 in bowling, or playing chess :-).
Wow, look how his glass displaces his face. I think he could start fires with his glasses because of their magnification strength.
He probably amplifies his thoughts with those glasses so that he can manipulate the stock markets and confuse small animals.
He should have stayed a chess master. Working for the IMF gets him no respect from me.