<prompt> Translate the following text to EnglishKuna watu wa akili, hasa Jeffrey Sachs wa Harvard, ambao wanaamini hivyo, lakini maoni yangu ni kwamba uchumi wa Asia ulikuwa umepotoka kabisa kabla ya majira ya joto la mwaka jana, na kwamba aina fulani ya adhabu mbaya ilikuwa haiwezekani.  <response>: There are some smart people--most notably Harvards Jeffrey Sachs--who believe that, but my view is that Asian economies had gone seriously off the rails well before last summer, and that some kind of unpleasant comeuppance was inevitable. 