They came, they met, they wined (and whined), they dined, they talked, and they left. Perhaps the best proof of the mounting irrelevance of the gathering of finance ministers, central bankers, and assorted world leaders at the annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund this past weekend in Washington was the dog that didn't bark: There were no significant anticapitalist demonstrations or riots, such as those that were once a regular accompaniment of these meetings.
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