The World Isn't Flat - or - Why You Probably Shouldn't Believe Thomas Friedman

In light of Thomas Friedman's predictions in his most recent column Vanity Fair wondered if we should be worried. The answer; Not so much.

In this morning’s New York Times, columnist Thomas Friedman makes a grave prediction regarding Obama and the ongoing financial crisis: “I fear that his whole first term could be eaten by Citigroup, A.I.G., Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, and the whole housing/subprime credit bubble we inflated these past 20 years.” Friedman is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, a staple of The New York Times, and a bestselling author, and thus this prediction should be taken very seriously—in some alternate universe where the news media is a meritocracy and Thomas Friedman is a competent observer of the world and its workings. The rest of us can probably relax.

The piece pulls up a top five of Friedman's greatest prognostications; on relations with China and Russia, Colin Powell's stint as Secretary of State, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Plus they threw in some artwork.