Thursday, March 12, 2009

50 shapers of Finance

The FT has released 50 shapers of finance, and not surprisingly KF is not among them. I count 31 of 50 (not counting Lou Jiwei, so it could be 32, but I don't really know what he does) as members of government organizations. Three are practicing private-sector economists: Krugman, Shiller, and Roubini. I think they are putting too much faith in private sector CEOs, you could probably narrow the list to ten. Bernanke, Obama, the three economists listed, and then five dead economists.