After receiving support from the United States at the critical moment, Christine Lagarde was named Tuesday as the next managing director of the International Monetary Fund. In campaigning for the job, Ms. Lagarde, France’s finance minister, made various promises to emerging markets with regard to improving their relationships with the I.M.F. [...]
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Christine Lagarde and the Demand for Dollars
June 30th, 2011 by Financial Writer
Tags: budget deficit, Christine Lagarde, economy, emerging markets, european union, federal budget, foreign exchange, International Monetary Fund
more...Canadian bonds beat world
January 8th, 2011 by Financial Writer
Returns in Canada’s bond market exceeded the rest of the world in 2010, gaining the most in five years, and may outperform again this year amid record foreign purchases of the nation’s fixed-income securities.
The Bank of America Merrill Lynch Canada Broad Market Index, which tracks 1,150 federal, provincial and corporate bonds with a par value [...]
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How Medicare Sets Hospital Prices: A Primer
November 29th, 2010 by Financial Writer
The Medicare formula for payments to hospitals would be improved if it were based on value delivered rather than costs, an economist writes.
Will Ireland Default? Ask Belgium
Reckless cross-border lending by big banks has made many nations vulnerable to Ireland’s fiscal crisis, an economist writes — and none more so than Belgium.
The Other Taxes: Who [...]
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Geithner says need to cut budget deficit
December 3rd, 2009 by Financial Writer
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Thursday said it was vital to get U.S. budget deficits down in order to spur private-sector growth that creates jobs and predicted it will begin happening in 2011.
But first the financial system must be stabilized.
“You cannot address those long-term deficits, you cannot put the government of the United States in [...]
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