Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "CNBC" channel.

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  35. Philip Lindley : Did you know, just before the financial crisis of 2008, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank, were facing a situation in which it’s Latin American debtors were about to balance the books? In fact, there was real, very hushed, talk of the IMF closing shop; former basket case countries were moving into the black all over the globe. And, the power of Europe and America, to say to these countries, ā€œWe can ease your payment problems, if you allow BP certain mineral rights here, or this fruit company gets a new franchise deal there, etc, was on the brink of vanishing into the either, along with the biggest banks in the world. Then, as if by magic, the world was hit by the biggest economic crisis, since 1929, and the IMF was back in business, bailing out Greece, Spain, Italy, etc. Its future has never looked more secure, and virtually NO ONE was held accountable for all those businesses going under, people’s life savings and pensions vanishing, and all those families who lost their houses. It was like kicking in an ant hill, and watching all the little ants, scurry about, trying to survive the calamity, knowing that the Queen was deep under the ground, safe and untouched by the chaos above. But I’m sure there was no connection between the IMF’s problems and ours, right? Just a coincidence . . . Like Loki recently told us, in true Hollywood style, to argue with such forces is pointless. In the same way that it is for an ant to argue with a boot
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