Virilio on Kosovo

Brad DeLong delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Sun Oct 22 12:51:04 PDT 2000



>On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Dennis R Redmond wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Brad DeLong wrote:
>>
>> > No... Soros was long Asia... Tiger was long Asia... The people who
>> > tried to pull down the HK$ were different...
>
>According to Krugman in _The Return of Depression Economics_ (1999), both
>Soros and Tiger were "rumored" to be prominent in the "double play"
>against Hong Kong (p. 126). Has evidence come to light since that this
>wasn't true?

Ah. I was thinking about Thailand and Malaysia, where Barry Eichengreen says that Soros lost big...

Brad DeLong



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