Several colleagues recently suggested that now is a propitious time to read (or re-read) Paul Blustein’s “The Chastening.” The book recounts how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the G-7 nations struggled to combat the Asian, Russian, and Latin American economic crises of the late 1990s. Having read the book while flying back and forth [...]
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Greece, the Other PIIGS, and “The Chastening”
Posted in Economy, Finance, History, International, Uncategorized, tagged Germany, Greece, IMF, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain on April 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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