#FreedomofSpeech doesn’t exist at the #IMF. #Tariff comments sank a candidate’s chances for an #IMF job. A #LondonSchoolofEconomics professor, #RicardoReis, was to become their chief economist, but lost the job because of his critical comments about #Trump trade war. www.ft.com/content/9832...

But we all know that Ricardo Reis is really a figment of the imagination of Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa: used to be a monarchist poet in exile, is now an economics professor writing odes about economic growth at the LSE. #RicardoReis #FernandoPessoa