Dersom du bare vil lese en artikkel i helga, og kanskje hele neste uke, les denneKrugman: I’m wondering about things like helium. I had not even thought about that. But helium is really critical for the production of I guess semiconductors, right?
O’Brien: Yeah, absolutely. I guess a lot of it goes to Taiwan. And if that trade dries up, there’ll be a helium rush around the world. Everyone will be trying to get helium. The price will double, and that means the price of electronics and computers will go up enormously. Everything’s going to go up if this goes on.
Phillips O'Brien on Iran - Paul Krugman
O’Brien: Well, remember what he did last summer. He bombed Iran once, decided it was over, then ordered the Israelis to turn around. So he can actually do something like that. That’s the way he behaves. He doesn’t care about other countries really. And therefore, if he decides he’s gotta get out to save himself, he’ll get out. So there’s some talk he’s gonna say to the Europeans, “You clean up the Gulf, I’m outta there. I made the mess and you’ll be the janitors.” And that might be where we are.
So if he decides to cut and run, he’ll cut and run. That I think is clear. He’ll just get out, but he’ll leave a mess behind. But, he is weakening the United States. This might be one of those moments as a marker in American decline. Making the United States weak, making the United States seem or be less powerful than it was. We could be seeing quite an important historical moment here. The Chinese are laughing.
Krugman: Yeah. And just at the moment when we really need allies. And so in other news we just launched section 301 investigations against everybody. It’s trade sanctions against all our erstwhile allies. It’s really scary.
O’Brien: You know, none of this makes sense to me, Paul. None of it makes sense. What the United States is doing, what it’s become, the lack of professionalism in the US government. It just seems like a farce.
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