THE TRUTH TALKER

摘要

At a meeting that morning, the fund's board heard that European countries were not doing the maximum necessary to stave off a financial implosion that could suck the life out of America's anemic recovery and bring Western economies again to the brink of recession, or worse. Christine Lagarde, the former French finance minister who has been at the top of the fund since last summer, sat at the head of the oblong ring of seats in a conference room lined with portraits of past IMF managing directors, all of them men.