FT argues IMF should be listened to because of its consistency, but fails to apply the criteria to others.

Sir, in “The Solomonic advice of the IMF”, October 12, though you accept that IMF “like most other forecasters has been proved over-optimistic on the strength of the recovery” you still argue that its advice deserves a serious hearing, primarily because of its “consistency”. 

Now I have, as you know, very consistently, argued from before the crisis that regulators were dooming us to a crisis, even in FT, and then that there was no way of recovering any sturdy and sustainable economic growth with bank regulations that discriminate in favor of what is ex-ante perceived as not risky, “The Infallibles”, and against “The Risky”, the small businesses and entrepreneurs. 

And from what I see, read and hear, the reigning majority of IMF economists, have still no complete idea about how we got into this mess, and so, clearly, much less a complete idea on how to get us out of the mess. 

But still, I do not get any brownie points for consistency, because that is not really what it is all about, and so my arguments are silenced by FT, consistently

By the way "Solomonic": “Exhibiting or requiring the wisdom of Solomon in making difficult decisions”, come on, I respect IMF, though I sure hope they would be smarter, but is that not taking it all a bit too far?