BACKGROUND INFO: Kenneth Rogoff is a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution and professor of economics at Harvard University.
Felix Salmon (at Portfolio.com):
[…] In any case, you have to read Ken Rogoff’-s spoof memo over at Foreign Policy. When someone of Rogoff’-s stature can laugh in Wolfowitz’-s face like this, you know it’-s all over. […]
Previous: INSIDER TRADING: World Bank employees speculating on the Paul Wolfowitz event derivatives at InTrade-TradeSports?? – (blog post that links to and re-publishes the fake memo)
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#1. Funny.
#2. Free publicity for InTrade-TradeSports.
#3. On Midas Oracle, the policy is that if we publish fake material, we label it clearly as “-humor”- (among other, by selecting the”-humor”- post category”-). See Niall O’-Connor’-s April 1st blog post on BoDog CEO being arrested in…- Tora Bora, Afghanistan. 
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