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Ace of Lobster,
The United States owns 51% of the World Bank, so it does have a very high stake in what it does. We are the major party lending the finances to developing nations.
International free trade, or globalization, is highly tied into the World Bank and IMF because of its "Assistance Plan" which requires the privatization of developing nations' energy companies to foreign corporations, many of which are American, as conditions for the loans.
Now, consider which would seemingly have a greater impact on our nation's economy. One man, who, granted, is very intelligent, forecasting interest rates, or billions of American loan dollars flowing into other nations and the privatization that follows.
And lastly, though I appreciate your assumption that I'm giving the "left a bad name", I find it at the same time highly presumptuous of you to assume you know my political affiliation based upon 2 sentences.
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"I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am" - Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses
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