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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 [...]
Leak false information to the media, sell the event derivative on InTrade-TradeSports?????
Via Bo Cowgill, Foreign Policy (which brought us the fake Wolfo memo last month):
[...] In theory, a quiet, dispersed buy of these very cheap contracts coupled with a well-timed leak could be a quick way to get some cash into the Palestinian Authority’s bare coffers. And Hamas wouldn’t even have to recognize Israel: Just whisper [...]
New York Times’ Maureen Dowd laughs in Paul Wolfowitz’s face.
New York Times’ Maureen Dowd is helping Paul Wolfowitz building his new résumé:
Work Experience
President of World Bank: 2005-2007
Responsibilities: Reining in European lefties, raining tax-free money on Arab girlfriend, and giving anti-corruption efforts a bad name.
Achievements: Paralyzed the international lending apparatus to the point where small countries had to max out their Visa cards to pay [...]
The White House signaled that Paul D. Wolfowitz might resign voluntarily as World Bank president if the bank board dropped its drive to declare him unfit to remain.
New York Times
Max Keiser (ex-HSX): MARKETS SAY WOLFOWITZ IS TOAST!
This neo-con is soon to be ousted, it seems. I won’t cry for him. What a bastard.
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Steve Sailer on the Paul Wolfowitz mess
Steve Sailer (the official Steve Levitt hater) in a comment on Marginal Revolution:
Wolfowitz, as much as anybody, started one of the stupidest wars in history. It’s hardly surprising that the employees of the World Bank don’t want to be shamed by having such a leader. That, knowing how many enemies he has made, he then [...]
WORLD BANK PRESIDENT PAUL WOLFOWITZ IS DONE LIKE A RAT. GUARANTEED.
Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution (the world’s #1 blog on economics) wants him out.
As an outsider it is hard to judge many aspects of Wolfowitz’s tenure. I take his continuing unwillingness to resign to be the biggest argument against his managerial abilities. He has lost the public relations battle and can no longer be effective. [...]
Senior World Bank officials tells of plans to try to end Paul D. Wolfowitz’s tenure next week.
MSNBC:
The World Bank executive board has concluded that the bank’s president, Paul D. Wolfowitz, broke ethics rules in engineering a hefty pay raise for his girlfriend, and plans to try to end his tenure next week, senior bank officials said yesterday. Board members do not want to vote to fire Wolfowitz, the officials said, since [...]
European leaders said that Paul D. Wolfowitz would face a no-confidence vote next week by the World Bank’s board.
New York Times
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The World Bank board agreed to give Paul D. Wolfowitz slightly more time to defend himself against charges of misconduct.
New York Times
Brad DeLong
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Mr. Malloch Brown warned on Monday that, if Mr. Paul Wolfowitz stayed as president of the World Bank, European countries might withhold funding from the next financing round for the bank’s International Development Association.
Wall Street Journal
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