Ten years of economic lecturing, consultancy and journalism followed.
"He's a smart guy and makes a lot of sense," she said after listening to Santorum's economic lecture.
Coming on top of months of economic lecturing, this redoubled Japanese resentment of American high-handedness.If the Japanese pull out of the reactor project, the whole thing may fall apart, because support for it in America is already shaky.
His economic lecture may not have satisfied all his critics or stopped the replays of his speech on Internet sites, but it was a safe answer that put him back in a familiar role: the outsider willing to stand up to President Bush.
He gave a broad economic lecture covering mortgage, congress, the weakened dollar and compared the current situation to other global and historical incidents.
Lawrence B. Lindsey, President Bush's top economic official, once worked as Mr. Feldstein's top teaching assistant, overseeing the logistics of his big economics lecture to Harvard undergraduates.
"Many Japanese people are shocked by the downgrading of Japan's debt," Mr. Ishi, an economic professor, lectured.
In recent years, "whenever other countries — Russia, Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea or Mexico — got themselves into an economic crisis, we lectured them about how they had to adopt 'shock therapy,' " said Moisés Naím, editor of Foreign Policy magazine.
He once signed a pact in blood to oppose diplomatic ties with China because of its communist government, and he published a book at the height of Japan's economic power that lectured his countrymen on the need to end what he considered its postwar servility to the United States.
"Repealing Obamacare and cutting spending is not an economic plan," Obama lectured his opponents.
