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...“We were the only game in town,” Christine Lagarde, who was president of the IMF at the time, said in 2019 when justifying the bailout....
...European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde discussed the “brutal” crisis in an exclusive interview with FT editor Roula Khalaf. Watch it below....
...Mr Fernández is anything but ideological, but his pragmatism is curtailed by dependence on the political support of his deputy, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner....
...Questions may also be asked about the IMF’s record-breaking rescue package for Argentina, with which its outgoing director Christine Lagarde was closely associated....
...Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who left office in 2015 amid galloping inflation, an overvalued currency and outsized fiscal deficit, plans to run in October’s presidential election....
...He is also likely to be questioned on the options left for Christine Lagarde when she takes over at the end of the week....
...When the IMF completed its third review of Argentina’s economy in early April, managing director Christine Lagarde boasted that the government policies linked to the country’s record $56bn bailout from the...
...ECB handover Mario Draghi on Monday hands over the European Central Bank presidency to Christine Lagarde amid one of the most vicious internecine feuds in the bank’s history....
...(NYT) Podcast of the day The return of Peronist politics in Argentina Argentina’s Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is back....
...His Peronist predecessor, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, had emptied the government coffers, signing decrees to increase spending by an extra $27bn in her final days in power....
....* President Mauricio Macri will have “full ownership” of the programme, said Christine Lagarde, the IMF’s managing director, stressing the importance of maintaining social consensus as the government tightens...
...Her predecessor and husband, the late Néstor Kirchner, broke with the IMF in 2006. A political bruiser, Kirchner even sported a plaster on his head at his inauguration....
...“The Kirchner government worked hard to [demonise] the IMF. The vast majority now believe it is synonymous with crisis and usury.”...
...IMF head Christine Lagarde’s claim that the plan was “owned and designed by the Argentine government” is credible....
...We changed the future for the past,” Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Mr Macri’s leftist predecessor, wrote on Twitter....
...Christine Lagarde, the IMF’s managing director, said on Wednesday that the fund’s staff was working with the government to “revise” its economic plan through “stronger monetary and fiscal policies and a...
...Led by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the still powerful former president, the group demanded that the agreement be approved by congress....
...Let Christine Lagarde wave her “red card” at Buenos Aires as much as she likes. Our inflation and GDP statistics are our own affair....
...Chatham House in London during a visit to the UK and France to promote trade relations, to July 18 Vladimir Putin, president of Russia, expected to visit one of four Russian-held islands claimed by Japan Christine...
...If by that he means Christine Lagarde’s unsolicited advice to Buenos Aires, then President Fernández de Kirchner would do well to steer a different course, as heeding siren voices leads to disaster....
...At the UN Ms Kirchner hit back at Christine Lagarde, IMF managing director, who had threatened to “red card” Argentina because of its fudged national statistics....
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