Wolfie on Stiggy

Brad De Long delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Thu Jun 29 20:31:32 PDT 2000



>The Financial Times said of James Wolfensohn:
>
>> Perhaps the bank president feels a little out of the loop. Asked
>> later if the US Treasury had excessive influence over the World Bank,
>> he first denied any such suggestion and then used sinister terms to
>> describe the debate between economists with Treasury links. "It is a
>> masonic order I don't want to be a member of," he said.
>>
>Wow. Brad, what's the secret handshake?
>
>Seth

It's not a handshake. It's a series of code recognition phrases...



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