The European Union’s finance ministers want to send former French finance minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn to Washington to run the International Monetary Fund. The way people get picked for these jobs is really, really silly, and in the end I can’t claim to care all that much who’s in charge at the IMF. But Strauss-Kahn is [...]
Citigroup bossman Chuck Prince had something interesting to say in the FT today: The Citigroup chief executive told the Financial Times that the party would end at some point but there was so much liquidity it would not be disrupted by the turmoil in the US subprime mortgage market. He denied that Citigroup, one of [...]
