IMF: Banks should pay their own way and no ‘Robin Hood’ tax
Faisal Islam blogs on the IMF report into making banks pay their own way
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France’s Christine Lagarde is favourite, while a trailing Gordon Brown has failed to secure David Cameron’s backing. We look at the main candidates to succeed Dominique Strauss-Kahn at the IMF.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn is granted bail by a New York judge. The former IMF chief has vowed to fight charges that he tried to rape a hotel maid in Manhattan.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigns as head of the IMF over attempted rape charges. A French journalist tells Channel 4 News he is seen as innocent until proven guilty in France.
As pressure mounts on Dominique Strauss-Khan to quit as head of the IMF over attempted rape charges, Jon Snow hears what life is like in the notorious Rikers Island jail where DSK is being held.
IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is denied bail after being arrested on suspicion of attempted rape as Economics Editor Faisal Islam says the scandal “will matter” as austerity measures grip Europe.
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn is arrested at JFK Airport in New York in connection with an alleged sexual assault on a hotel maid.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) gives an official slap on the back to George Osborne and his “strong and credible” deficit reduction plan, saying the cuts were essential.
Shadow business secretary, Ken Clarke, asserts that a hung parliament will result in the IMF bailing out the British economy.
Faisal Islam blogs on the IMF report into making banks pay their own way
Interviewing Denis Healey and former IMF chief Johannes Witteveen about the day Britain had to be bailed out by the IMF.
In the not-very-funny economics joke, the IMF stands for “it’s mostly fiscal”. That’s a reference to its long-held ideology of forcing developing countries to cut spending and budget deficits in response to almost any financial crisis. It was a sort of cosmic chastity belt on fiscal profligacy. So what better ally for the prospective iron…
UPDATE: The IMF retracted its claim. ORIGINAL POST: The IMF has hugely upgraded its projection for the likely total costs of the bank bailout. In today’s Global Financial Stability Report the costs of financial stabilisation are put at a whopping 13.4 per cent of GDP, or £200bn. This brings the IMF in to line with…
Zambia is reckoned to be the 13th poorest country in the world. Sixty-four per cent of the people live in poverty. More than one in six children die before their fifth birthday, and if you live to the age of 42 you are doing better than average. Britain is the largest bilateral donor to Zambia,…
Earlier we spoke to Treasury Minister Gareth Davies.
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