Socialize the losses; privatize the gains.
Joanna
Carl Remick wrote:
>> From: Willy Greenfields <filthydirtyunwashed at yahoo.com>
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>> <http://tinyurl.com/mlgfa>
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> Wow, there is no end to smartest-guy-in-the-room Larry Summer's bright
> ideas. It would appear that the whole purpose of this IMF hedge fund
> would be to ensure that there is no domestic political accountability
> whatsoever for speculating with national reserves -- brilliant!
> That's the way I read this excerpt from the article: "To counter
> their misplaced apprehension of risky assets, so they could earn a
> better return on reserves, developing nations require 'some form of
> legitimated international scrutiny and monitoring of central bank
> reserve investments,' Summers said. That opens a whole new opportunity
> for the IMF and the World Bank. They could create 'an international
> facility in which countries could invest their excess reserves
> *without taking domestic political responsibility* for the process of
> investment decision and ultimate result,' Summers said." [emphasis
> added.]
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> Carl
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