{"id":9756,"date":"2011-05-19T14:53:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T18:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9756"},"modified":"2011-05-19T14:53:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T18:53:33","slug":"maybe-an-american-should-run-the-imf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9756\/maybe-an-american-should-run-the-imf\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe an American Should Run the IMF"},"content":{"rendered":"

For some reason, the French are trying to maintain a death grip on leading the International Monetary Fund, newly headless after Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned over an alleged sexual assault<\/a> scandal.\u00a0 Though Deputy Director John Lipsky, an American, is now serving as the interim head of the IMF<\/a>, a move is already underway to install France\u2019s Finance Minister Christine Lagarde as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n

But not so fast, say a panel of French judges.\u00a0 They are weighing whether to investigate<\/a> Lagarde for allegedly intervening in a lawsuit against the government on behalf of a political donor to her party.\u00a0 The announcement is clouding her candidacy.<\/p>\n

First, the French had to endure the hypocrisy of the Socialist Strauss-Kahn staying in a $3,000 a night hotel suite<\/a>.\u00a0 (So far, the alleged attack is a lesser blemish in French circles with a majority believing Strauss-Kahn was set up<\/a>.)\u00a0 Now, his potential replacement is under fire for crony capitalism.<\/p>\n

Is French disdain for America so great that the most obvious replacement is deemed unacceptable for the long-term because he happens to be from the United States?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For some reason, the French are trying to maintain a death grip on leading the International Monetary Fund, newly headless after Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned over an alleged sexual assault scandal.\u00a0 Though Deputy Director John Lipsky, an American, is now serving as the interim head of the IMF, a move is already underway to install […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[351,2710,1836,2709,1527,409],"class_list":["post-9756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-corruption","tag-crony-capitalism","tag-france","tag-french-politics","tag-imf","tag-international-monetary-fund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9758,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756\/revisions\/9758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}