Once again, I find myself wondering why I bother reading your increasingly hysterical and illogical ramblings. I'm not sure what purpose the rant against "upper income" Americans was supposed to accomplish other than to reveal some class envy on your part..

It isn't World War Two that we should be interested in when considering the end of the Depression, it is the "conservative" economic policies of the Truman Administration that were in effect in the years after the government went from running trillion dollar deficits (in today's money) to running a surplus and unleashing millions of readily employable workers into the marketplace that produced the desired effect.

It is also hard to see how the current "stimulus" - (aimed at rewarding the forty percent of Americans who don't pay taxes for their solid support of the Democratic party) composed of "family planning" and Mob Museums has to do with training millions of highly skilled workers and retooling and modernizing America's industrial base like we did in WW2.

Finally, I would just like to say that I look forward to the day that I no longer have to hear Mr. Krugman's nonsense or read it in the now defunct and bankrupt (in every sense) New York Times...

Where do you guys get this kind of crap...?IBM is not laying off 100k people. It simply doesn't make sense given their current business model. Also, for the person saying that US salaries are too high, this may be superficially true, but unless the statistics have changed, the American worker remains among the most productive in the world...
I agree that we are focusing less on science and technology, but I think this is to a large portion due to a decline in traditional American values of hard work etc.. More kids these days want to bairly get out of high school and then try and sell a rap record to someone.

Maybe the Central Govt. should focus on getting reliable electricity to all of India before they start laying fiber optic cable. Or before that, how about hiring some honest policemen and judges, or ensuring that elections are actually fair and honest. Or wait, how about actually being able to feed everyone..

To the people saying that India has made progress equivalent to Chinese progress.. you are so blind it is not even funny. I have spend EXTENSIVE time in both countries and the Chinese are so far ahead it is not even funny... The Chinese are hosting the next Olympics (govt.), have completed the largest construction project in history (Three Gorges- government), and are currently building two of the world's tallest buildings (private development). Chinese highways consist of eight lanes, fully lighted, with LED exit signs that show where traffic is backed up...

I really question the fact that they are able to achieve comparable levels of power or tunability as a TI:Sapphire laser using visible light. While they may be able to get equivalent amounts of power (somehow) I have no idea how they would address the tunabiity aspect. Sounds like a pretty limited use application, whereas if you have a Ti:Sapphire, you can pull the laser out and use it to do pretty much anything...

Scandinavia is not a country. Kindly break out a globe before writing articles...