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LET’S REVISIT HISTORY: In May 2007, Harvard professor of economics Kenneth Rogoff laughed in Paul Wolfowitz’s face.
BACKGROUND INFO: Kenneth Rogoff is a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution and professor of economics at Harvard University.
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May 2007’s Blog Post: INSIDER TRADING: World Bank employees speculating on the Paul Wolfowitz event derivatives at InTrade-TradeSports?? -
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For Aprils’s Fool Day 2007, Kenneth Rogoff wrote the following hoax.
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ForeignPolicy.com
MEMORANDUM:
TO: World Bank Staff
FROM: Paul Wolfowitz, President of [...]
INSIDER TRADING: World Bank employees speculating on the Paul Wolfowitz event derivatives at InTrade-TradeSports??
What follows sounds like a fake Wolfowitz memo. However, what puzzles me is that it was published by an apparently serious publication, ForeignPolicy.com. Bizarre. (Via Fabian John.)
WARNING: I HAVE DOUBT ON THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE DOCUMENT. To tell you frankly, my opinion is that it is a hoax (it’s funny, though).
MEMORANDUM:
TO: World Bank Staff
FROM: Paul [...]
NEXT SUNDAY, THE FRENCH WILL ELECT REPUBLICAN NICOLAS SARKOZY AS THEIR PRESIDENT.
The Economist tells me I should vote for Nicolas Sarkozy. Well… if they really think he’s “the man”…
The French presidential election
France’s chance
Apr 12th 2007
From The Economist print edition
After a quarter-century of drift Nicolas Sarkozy offers the best hope of reform
No French presidential election in 50 years has looked as unpredictable [*] [?? - [...]
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