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yortsed snacilbuper

(7,939 posts)
Fri Jan 11, 2019, 05:36 PM Jan 2019

ivanka Trump floated as possible World Bank president: report

Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump and a White House adviser, is being floated as a possible president of the World Bank, the Financial Times reported without attribution. The report said other names "floating around Washington" include Treasury official David Malpass, former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley, and Mark Green, the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

The Treasury Department says it's beginning the process to make a selection, which typically but doesn't have to go to an American. Non-American alternatives include Nigerian economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Rwandan economist Donald Kaberuka and Indonesian finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, the report said. Jim Kim resigned as World Bank president to work at a private-equity fund.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/ivanka-trump-floated-as-possible-world-bank-president-report-2019-01-11

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ivanka Trump floated as possible World Bank president: report (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Jan 2019 OP
Parody ck4829 Jan 2019 #1
Sure Achilleaze Jan 2019 #2
Once again, I call bullshit PJMcK Jan 2019 #3
Impeccable qualifications (snark) C_U_L8R Jan 2019 #4
Somebody elsewhere said Lindsay Jan 2019 #6
Floated by whom? The article doesn't actually provide Takket Jan 2019 #5
Oh, is it a high fashion position now? milestogo Jan 2019 #7
lol fail ! stonecutter357 Jan 2019 #8
In related news, Wolf granted custody of Red Riding Hood, and Goldilocks. lindysalsagal Jan 2019 #9

PJMcK

(22,034 posts)
3. Once again, I call bullshit
Fri Jan 11, 2019, 05:41 PM
Jan 2019

Names "floating around Washington" are "reported without attribution." The writer of the article could just have made up the story.

This is a useless article and demonstrates extremely poor journalism. Did marketwatch.com really need some clickbait to titillate their readers?

Lame. And stupid.

Lindsay

(3,276 posts)
6. Somebody elsewhere said
Fri Jan 11, 2019, 05:48 PM
Jan 2019

she's qualified because she has lots of experience in money laundering. (It's the family business, after all.)

Takket

(21,563 posts)
5. Floated by whom? The article doesn't actually provide
Fri Jan 11, 2019, 05:44 PM
Jan 2019

Any context as to who floated the name! How do I know it wasn’t two people in a bar laughing about it as a joke?

lindysalsagal

(20,679 posts)
9. In related news, Wolf granted custody of Red Riding Hood, and Goldilocks.
Fri Jan 11, 2019, 05:55 PM
Jan 2019

Snow White is arrested for domestic abuse for renting our 3 dwarves to the circus.

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