Stanley Fischer has applied for the top IMF post. He has a wellpaying job as head of the Bank of Israel and only last year he was appointed to a second five-year term. He said:
"An extraordinary, unexpected and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity has arisen, to run for the head of the International Monetary Fund, which I decided I wanted to do after many considerations."The international financial media doubts his chances. Never had an African native been appointed to such post.
Despite Fischer's achievements, the position may be a long-shot for the Zambia native. The post has traditionally gone to a European, and French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde has emerged as the front-runner.
7 comments:
This is a Maori.
I used to live in Zambia.
it is a beautiful country, full of people more than qualified to head the IMF.
Anon.
Hopefully means this IMF will stop behaving like an economic death squad when the Europeans are ejected
*chuckles* I like your sense of humour sir.
Not everyone of your readers knows he is the current governor of the Bank of Israel. So not mentioning his ethnic background is a nice little jest, but the Maori pic had me loling.
The media and what they will mention and what they won't is just to easy to make fun of.
Thanks for the correction: The picture is NOT Professor Stanley Fischer. I have never met him, since the mistake. Sorry.
Mr Fischer, I surmise, has a different tattoo and war-cry.
Anon.
We are lucky that the IMF is ageist and Prof. Fischer was rejected. I was already memorizing Zambia's anthem.
Fwe lukuta lwa Zambia lonse,
Twikatane tubyo mutende,
Pamo nga lubambe mu mulu,
Lumbanyeni Zambia.
Twikatane bonse.
Lumbanyeni,
Lesa, Lesa, wesu,
Apale calo,
Zambia, Zambia, Zambia.
Fwe bantungwa
Mu luunga lwa calo.
Lumbanyeni Zambia.
Twikatane bonse.
The tune to this has not gone through my mind for decades, but it comes back now.
Anon.
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