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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

International Monetary Fund - IMF News - 5/18/2011

French Minister in the Spotlight for IMF Role
New York Times
Now it is helping to make her perhaps the leading candidate to succeed her
friend and colleague, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who is likely to be forced to
resign his post as managing director of the International Monetary Fund to
deal with rape charges ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/world/europe/19iht-profile.html>
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Sarkozy to IMF chief in 2007: Control yourself
CBS News
International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, right, shakes
hands with French President Nicolas Sarkozy as he leaves the presidential
Elysee Palace after talks Nov. 17, 2010, in Paris. While the International
Monetary Fund's chief waits in ...
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Strauss-Kahn's IMF future hinges on bail hearing
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dominique Strauss-Kahn's bail hearing Friday could
spell the end of his leadership of the International Monetary Fund. If a
New York judge denies bail for Strauss-Kahn or imposes highly restrictive
conditions on his freedom, the IMF ...
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Fund must turn away from DSK's economic mistakes
Financial Times
History, however, is more likely to remember him as the man who put the IMF
on the road to decline, by his misguided handling of the eurozone debt
crisis. Mr Strauss-Kahn's decision to treat the crisis as a matter of
liquidity rather than solvency led ...
<http://www.ft.com/cms/s/b2f38dd2-8195-11e0-8a54-00144feabdc0.html>
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NY police look for DNA in hotel carpet in IMF case
Ct Post
COLLEEN LONG, AP, TOM HAYS, Associated Press Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head
of the International Monetary Fund, is arraigned Monday, May 16, 2011, in
Manhattan Criminal Court for an alleged attack on a maid who went into his
penthouse suite at a hotel ...
<http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/NY-police-look-for-DNA-in-hotel-carpet-in-IMF-case-1382460.php>
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Brazil: next IMF chief should be chosen on merit
Reuters
BRASILIA May 18 (Reuters) - The selection of the next managing director of
the International Monetary Fund should be based on merit and not on
nationality, Brazil's Finance Minister Guido Mantega said on Wednesday. In
an open letter to the G20 group of ...
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/18/brazil-imf-idUSSAQ00264420110518>
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David Lipton Could Be Up for IMF Office
The Moscow Times
By Lena Smirnova The US government is considering nominating the bureaucrat
behind Russia's shock therapy policies of the 1990s to the second-highest
post at the International Monetary Fund, Reuters reported Wednesday, based
on information from close ...
<http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/david-lipton-could-be-up-for-imf-office/437072.html>
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Polish cbank head says not candidate for IMF job
Reuters
JACHRANKA, Poland, May 18 (Reuters) - The governor of Poland's central
bank, Marek Belka, dismissed speculation on Wednesday he could be a
candidate to replace jailed Dominique Strauss-Kahn as head of the
International Monetary Fund. ...
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/18/imf-poland-belka-idUSLDE74H0TY20110518>
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Blanchflower Doesn't Rule Out Brown for Top IMF Post
Washington Post
... College and former policy maker at the Bank of England, talks about the
outlook for a restructuring of Greek debt and former UK Prime Minister
Gordon Brown as a potential replacement for International Monetary Fund
chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. ...
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Maid in IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn alleged hotel rape not HIV positive ...
New York Daily News
BY Larry Mcshane Do you think IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will have
any political future after being accused of sexually assaulting a hotel
maid? The Manhattan maid who accused a French big-wig of sexual assault is
not HIV positive - and did not ...
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The IMF oddsmakers | Felix Salmon
By Felix Salmon
The Economist has one list of William Hill odds for who's going to succeed
Dominique Strauss-Kahn as managing director of the IMF; William Hill itself
has a slightly different list.
<http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/05/18/the-imf-oddsmakers/>
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<http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/>

Jeff Danziger: IMF Explained
By Jeff Danziger
IMF Explained - The Huffington Post.
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Dominique Strauss Kahn: IMF Chief On Suicide Watch In New York Jail
By The Huffington Post News Editors
NEW YORK -- The maid came from one of the world's poorest countries to the
U.S., working to support the teen daughter she raised alone. The penthouse
suite at the Sofitel Hotel was just another room.
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The Race For The IMF « The Baseline Scenario
By Simon Johnson
Strauss-Kahn, the IMF managing director, was expected to begin campaigning
soon for the presidency of France. Now, whatever happens in the New York
legal system as he defends himself against attempted rape allegations, it
seems likely ...
<http://baselinescenario.com/2011/05/18/the-race-for-the-imf/>
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NewsDaily: IMF issues stark warning to Greece on fiscal goals
By George Georgiopoulos and Harry Papachristou
The IMF warned on Wednesday that Greece's drive to shore up its troubled
finances would fail unless it sharply accelerated reforms, and the ECB hit
back at suggestions a debt restructuring might be the solution.
<http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre74h1pw-us-imf-greece/>
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IMF chief denied bail in hotel sex assault case - US news - Crime ...
A judge on Monday ordered the head of the International Monetary Fund held
in jail without bail on charges he sexually assaulted a maid who went into
his ...
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