Pemikiran seorang Paul Krugman sebagai seorang pakar ekonomi, tentulah bukan 
asal berfikir dan sekedar membaca.
Apa yg tertulis dibawah minimal sudah memberikan opini bahwa issue 
demontrasi di Wall Street bukanlah sebuah gerakan asal asal an, di Amerika 
memang sering terjadi demontrasi, hanya bila ditujukan ke sebuah instituisi 
ekonomi, bukanlah hal remeh.

Hal yg sama pernah terjadi di Indonesia dimana pasar saham menjadi amburadul 
begitu kena goyang mendadak, padahal sebelum Indonesia sudah terjadi lebih 
dahulu dinegara tetangga, terutama Thailand, sedang ekonomi di Wall Street 
bisa jadi akan diback up habis habis an oleh pemerintah, hanya apa sanggup 
mengatasi demo yg pada dasarnya sudah apatis dengan kondisi ekonomi Amerika 
yg stagnan sejak terjadi krisis awal di tahun 2008 ?.

Dalam kurun waktu 3 tahun, tindakan pendemo anarkis mulai timbul dimana 
terjadi penjarahan, biarpun terjadi di negara bagian, hal mana menandakan 
gejala awal dari bisul yg mulai matang.

sur.
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PAUL KRUGMAN
October 6, 2011, 9:38 am
Unsavvy People
Nieman Watchdog has a very good piece by John Hanrahan about press coverage 
of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. Coverage was initially dismissive 
and minimal — and mea culpa, I wasn’t paying attention myself. But it’s 
becoming clear that there’s something important happening: finally, after 
three years in which Very Serious People refused to hold the financial 
industry accountable, there’s a real grass-roots uprising against the 
Masters of the Universe.

There will, of course, be the usual attempts to dismiss the whole thing 
based on trivialities. Look at the oddly dressed people acting out! So? Is 
it better when exquisitely tailored bankers whose gambles brought the world 
economy to its knees — and who were bailed out by taxpayers — whine that 
President Obama is saying slightly mean things about them?

Or, why don’t they try to work within the system? Well, how’s that been 
going for those who did indeed try? When palace intrigue undermined the 
likes of Elizabeth Warren even within the Obama administration, and 
Republicans have thrown their full backing behind the malefactors of great 
wealth, why shouldn’t protesters go outside the usual channels?

Finally, why not defer to people who know what needs to be done? Regular 
readers know the answer: the VSPs have been consistently, awesomely wrong, 
both before the financial crisis and after. Nothing in the recent record of 
policy suggests that the wise men of finance deserve any credence at all.

So, good for the protesters. And if the Obama people have any sense of 
self-preservation, they’ll try to mend fences with the people they have 
disappointed so badly.



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