Hints and tips:
...The Bulgarian economist succeeded Christine Lagarde two years ago after an acrimonious battle among European capitals....
...Chris Krueger, Cowen & Co’s DC watcher, peppers each note he publishes with song lyrics. Wednesday’s featured The Grateful Dead, which felt a little on the nose....
...Back then, Anne Krueger was the fund’s first deputy, and her “big idea” was a bankruptcy court for financially failed nations....
...“You have a woman [Christine Lagarde] at the head of the IMF now but don’t imagine life for a female staff member was plain sailing. In those days it was a boys’ club....
.... __________ As the International Monetary Fund readies itself for its Annual Meetings in Lima next week, perhaps the key issue in its governance—the end of Christine Lagarde’s term as Managing Director...
...Mr Card was co-author, with Alan Krueger – now chairman of Mr Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers – of a much cited study of fast food restaurants in New Jersey that found no reduction in employment after...
...“Christine Lagarde is more like a chairman of the board.”...
...But the idea did not really gain traction until a restructuring mechanism was proposed by Anne Krueger, Mr Fischer’s American successor as first deputy managing director, in 2001....
...Christine Rice sings with proto-Wagnerian warmth as Hansel, though she rather towers over Ailish Tynan’s pint-sized, but vocally sweet, Gretel....
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