Keynes Question

[Seth Ackerman]

> Well... yes. But my view is that the argument for a kinder, gentler 
> IMF is a loser unless we have a richer, better-funded IMF. The IMF 
> today feels like its institutional survival is at stake in every 
> crisis: that it *must* be paid back or its resources will dwindle 
> down to zero and it will vanish in less than a decade...
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Not everyone agrees with this explanation of the IMF's unkindness and
ungentleness. Mickey Kantor, for instance, who urges more IMF conditionality
as a "battering ram" for U.S. trade interests in the developing world...

Seth