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I know it's not funny, but I can't stop laughing at this. I also heard Bob Geldof is up for UN President and Sting was nominated to the World Court but I can't find documentation to support it.

Which washed up rock star should be the next Pope? Oh duh... Sinead O'Connor! Of course!

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my grasp of international economics is crappy but for some reason i can almost see this just because the world bank has always been the IMF's bitch anyways so being head of the world bank is sort of, meh. at least, relatively. haha.

i took econ 1 from john taylor. he was really fond of doing zany things to make econ more exciting. (what was he thinking? econ can't possibly be more exciting than it normally is!?!) every quarter he taught he would come to lecture dressed up as a raisin. i actually missed this because i skipped lecture that day. ::shakes fist:: although i did see him wear a pumpkin on his head for the lecture closest to halloween.

stop thinking about this rationally. It is absurd. not because I feel it somehow demeans the World Bank or something. But to the scope of Rock Star self-centeredness. Shilling for corporations is one thing. Shilling for international capital is another. I know it's just degree of difference but...

We aren't the world
we aren't the children
we're just bosses and bureacrats and rock and roll has-beens...

oh no, i definitely agree it's absurd, i just thought it was also an amusing highlight of WB v IMF power. re: someone else's comment below i got the idea that the IMF held more power than the WB from joe stiglitz's "globalization and its discontents" where he bitches about how the IMF screwed with all his WB programs.

Given the rockstar context, I thought at first you meant John Taylor from Duran Duran.

I would love to see that John Taylor try to explain Schumpeter while dressed as a raisin. That's like a wonderful dream.