Intressant intervju med Afghanistans förra centralbankschef Ajmal Ahmady
som flydde fältet. Tydligen kände pengarna till att Kabul skulle falla. IMF skruvade igen pengakranen fredagen den 13 augusti och Kabul föll på söndagen. Pengarna håller sig alltid underrättade medan resten av bönderna står där med gapande mun och säger ”vi såg det inte komma”.
Saxar från transkriptionen.
Ajmal:
It was a very, very big deal. So as I mentioned on Thursday, a number of provincial capitals fell and I thought that was a bad situation. And then on Friday morning we received a call that an expected shipment, which was due to arrive on Sunday, would be canceled. At this stage we're still thinking even medium-term, we're not thinking that the government will fall on Sunday.
I was taken aback that it was a one-off decision, or it wasn't even a process through which they said they would send less, it was just a complete stoppage, which was very worrying.
So we ran through various scenarios, but I think at the end,
our international partners had good intelligence because they, you know, the shipment was planning to come on Sunday. And they said, no, that's when Kabul fell.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-23/transcript-a-conversation-with-afghanistan-s-former-bank-chief
Och hela intervjun finns på apple podcast.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-conversation-with-ajmal-ahmady-afghanistans/id1056200096?i=1000532783513
Odd Lots: A Conversation With Ajmal Ahmady, Afghanistan’s Former Central Bank Chief on Apple Podcasts
Over the last week and a half, the world has watched in shock at the dizzying speed of the collapse in Afghanistan. Events are still unfolding, so the future remains extremely uncertain. One former official who has been outspoken in recent days is Ajmal Ahmady, who was running Afghanistan's central…
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