MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
By Simon Johnson, Economix blog @ nytimes.com, June 2, 2011
The Times' summary:
The French government would like the I.M.F. to help keep its electorate in the dark about banking problems, an economist writes.
Simon Johnson, the former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, is the co-author of “13 Bankers.”