Schettino, who is pragmatic but typically leans pretty hard right, also comes down in favor of Gordon Brown's plan to buy shares of British banks, and criticizes the US reluctance to do so.
[T]hey will have to nationalize a portion of the banks, and that is what the Bush administration officials don't want to accept. There exists, I believe, the rigid thinking that we tend to associate with neoliberalism. But that thinking has failed continually, not just now: it was the same that failed in the early '80s in Reagan's first term, for example.He also includes a message for Paul Krugman, who publishes a column in El Universal:
Allow me to congratulate myself for the award of the prize to [Krugman], and for a moment let me enjoy the fact that he is a colleague on these pages. It's the closest I'll be to a Nobel, so it's worth taking advantage of.
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