Conservatives craft bill to prevent IMF bailout of crumbling eurozone

Alexander Bolton The Hill 12/2/2011

Conservatives say they will try to block the International Monetary Fund from bailing out Italy and Spain, which they say could leave U.S. taxpayers with a huge bill.

Republicans on both sides of the Capitol complain that the Obama administration has refused to share details of what Treasury Secretary Timothy […]

Bombshell Report Says Eurozone Meeting Was Filled With Despair, German-French Relations Collapsed

Joe Weisenthal Business Insider 10/22/2011

Now, bear in mind that The Telegraph is one of the most anti-Euro papers around, but regardless, this latest dispatch from the meeting of European Finance Ministers happening this weekend sounds horrible.

Just the title Eurozone summit – despair and backbiting in the corridors of power says it all.

The […]

Lagarde named first female head of IMF

Jonathon M. Seidl The Blaze 6/28/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) — French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde has been chosen to lead the International Monetary Fund. She will become the first female managing director of the global lending organization.

Lagarde’s selection became all but assured when the Obama administration endorsed her earlier Tuesday. Hours later, the IMF’s 24-member […]

Israel’s central bank chief applies for top job at International Monetary Fund

Associated Press via The Washington Post 6/11/2011

JERUSALEM — Israel’s finance minister says the country’s central bank chief has applied to head the International Monetary Fund.

Respected economist Stanley Fischer has headed Israel’s central bank since 2005 and has held top jobs at the World Bank and at Citigroup Corp.

Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said […]

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