By Paul Homewood
h/t Joe Public
Brilliant!!
https://twitter.com/sonykapoor/status/909067273679273984
But even funnier is the back story.
Sony Kapoor, who posted this on his twitter feed, along with the gratuitous insult about Brexit, seems to be one of those people who thinks he knows better than the rest of us.
This is his Linkedin profile:
Summary
Sony Kapoor is a prominent economist, financial sector expert and development practitioner whose career spans investment banking, civil society, academia & policymaking across several countries. As MD of the Re-Define Think Tank and CEO of Court Jesters Consulting, Mr Kapoor advises several EU and emerging economy governments, central banks, regulators and investors on economic & financial policy and investment strategy.
Sony was Chairman of the Banking Stakeholder Board, European Banking Authority and an expert adviser to the European Commission, the European Parliament and the IMF focusing mainly on crisis management, economic governance, fiscal policy and financial sector reform. He has held a multidisciplinary role at the LSE with the Systemic Risk Centre and the Development, Government & European departments. He was also Special Adviser to the UN on green finance and Strategy Adviser to Norway’s government.
Mr Kapoor has a long track record of identifying the most pressing public policy challenges and successfully tackling them. The impact of his work on financial reform, Eurocrisis and development has led to him being honoured as a Fellow by the Royal Society of Arts, a Young European Leader by Friends of Europe and a Young Global Leader by WEF. George Soros has aptly called him a successful “Policy Entrepreneur”.
Sony has had an eclectic career in finance, politics and civil society. He worked for ICICI, India’s largest investment bank, did leveraged finance for Lehman Brothers in London and traded derivatives for Aquila Energy, also partnering with the World Bank to provide risk management to vulnerable economies. He co-founded NGOs such as the Tax Justice Network & Finance Watch and the inter-governmental Illicit Finance Task Force & International Tax Compact.
An alumnus of the LSE and the Indian Institute of Technology, Mr Kapoor is a popular keynote speaker & respected commentator. He is also finishing a book on large scale misallocation of capital.
Unfortunately though he seems to be lacking in commonsense, as the letter that he thought was real turns out to be a spoof from Viz magazine.
Dozens of his followers on twitter have rather embarrassingly pointed this out to him.
It was not even a recent item, as it originally appeared in October 2016.
Even Brian Cox, who is often on the receiving end of Viz jokes, had to respond at the time:
https://twitter.com/AdrianNewth
As Adrian Newth cruelly sums it up:
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