No Snickering at the IMF's Latest Report

"When I was warning of a looming Financial Armageddon in the spring of 2007, it wasn't hard to miss the sarcastic comments and the dismissive smirks of the so-called experts -- the clueless Wall Street strategists, the economists with their heads up in the clouds (or somewhere else), the policymakers who thought they had it all figured out, and the pinheaded bloggers and pundits who accused me and other thoughtful analysts of charlatanism and fear-mongering."