{"id":187441,"date":"2011-06-28T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/06\/28\/silly-developing-nations-dont-you-know-that-the-imf-is-for-white-people\/"},"modified":"2011-06-28T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T23:04:00","slug":"silly-developing-nations-dont-you-know-that-the-imf-is-for-white-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/06\/28\/silly-developing-nations-dont-you-know-that-the-imf-is-for-white-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Silly Developing Nations, Don&#8217;t You Know that the IMF is for White People?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/29\/business\/global\/29fund.html\">Christine Lagarde has been appointed the new head of the IMF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What striking about all this is how the powers that be have insisted that they need to have a European in charge, because of the current crises in the Euro zone.<\/p>\n<p>Gee, no one ever said that when it was Indonesia, Mexico, Korea, Malaysia, etc., but once it&#8217;s the Euro&#8217;s head in the noose, suddenly we need to institute a <strike>affirmative action for white people<\/strike> legacy admissions program for the window office at a major international financial agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Christine Lagarde has been appointed the new head of the IMF. What striking about all this is how the powers that be have insisted that they need to have a European in charge, because of the current crises in the Euro zone. Gee, no one ever said that when it was Indonesia, Mexico, Korea, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,975,1004,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-employment","category-finance","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}