Concise observation from the Communism List:


>Significantly the IMF report has been critical of the Bush Administration's
>fiscal policy. However the administration pays almost no notice to this
>criticism. In general the IMF report on the US economy is not an event in the
>US. By contrast it is taken quite seriously in many third world economies.
>Clearly any criticism and recommendations it makes concerning Federal economic
>policy is simply meant to invest the IMF with an air of neutrality. But the
>marginalisation of these reports in Washington is the true measure of what the
>IMF stands for. It indicates that because the US economy is the leading
>capitalist economy it can dismiss such reports. It can dismiss them too 
>because,
>in a sense, it is the IMF.
>
>Basically its report and recommendations on the US economy is farcical and 
>about
>sums everything that the IMF stands for.

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