Christine Lagarde

IMF chief Christine Lagarde's shockingly offensive remarks regarding the Greek depression--which has been deepened and prolonged by IMF/EU-imposed austerity measures--have sparked a firestorm of protest on Facebook. Click here for the story.Her hypocrisy--she claims to have great concern and sympathy for poor African schoolchildren, whose plight she compares with the problems of comparatively well-off Greeks--is frankly nauseating in light of...  

IMF chief Christine Lagarde wants the people of Greece to pay their taxes. The problem? She doesn't really pay taxes herself. "As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time," Lagarde ...  

While Christine Lagarde has been busy lecturing the Greeks about their chronic tax collection issues, it transpires the International Monetary Fund boss does not pay any tax on her own $467,940 annual salary - inflation-linked and topped up annually - plus ...  

??can be merciless, and the IMF is political even if it's not a country. IMF chief??Christine Lagarde??suggested in an interview with UK?s Guardian??that the Greeks should pay their taxes. It turns out Ms. Lagarde?legitimately?doesn't pay them herself. In fact, her IMF salary of $467,940 plus an $83,760 additional allowance is not subject to any taxes. ...  

as Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria met the global lender's chief Christine Lagarde. 'There is no such plan. We have not received any request to that effect and we are not doing any work in relation to any financial ...  

The International Monetary Fund's boss, Christine Lagarde, made a lot of Greeks very angry with an interview she gave The Guardian on Friday. Essentially, Lagarde said she has very little sympathy for the Greeks and that if they want to solve ...  

WASHINGTON – The International Monetary Fund's top official has expressed regrets for comments about Greeks' suffering during their debt crisis. Managing Director Christine Lagarde told Britain's The Guardian last week she has more sympathy ...  

In a statement after the talks, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde denied a news report that said the IMF was preparing financial assistance to Spain. "There is no such plan. We have not received any request to that effect and we are not doing any ...  

IMF chief Christine Lagarde's uncompromising description of Greeks as rampant tax dodgers has provoked a furious reaction in Athens less than a month before the crisis-hit country heads to the polls. With Greece mired in ever-worsening recession, created ...  

After the meeting with Mr. Saenz, IMF managing director Christine Lagarde denied a media report that ... euro EUR/USD-I to a two-year low against the dollar on Thursday. A Dow Jones news report, quoting unnamed officials, said the IMF was in talks with ...  

IMF head Christine Lagarde on Friday said citizens must begin ... both of which support pursuing the austerity policies handed down by the European Union and International Monetary Fund (IMF) in exchange for massive bailout aid. The anti-austerity party ...  

I’m not quite as bowled over by IMF chief Christine Lagarde as the BBC’s Robert Peston seems to be, but I’m an admirer — and I’m finding it hard to shake off a mental image of her as a teenage member of the French synchronised swimming team.  

Officials in Greece are blasting Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, over her zero income tax bill after her criticisms that Greece’s massive tax evasion are behind the country’s fiscal collapse. Speaking last week to ...  

Christine Lagarde, the International Monetary Fund managing director who provoked an angry reaction from the Greek people after telling them to pay their taxes, does not pay tax on her own salary. “I also think about all those people who are ...  

LONDON — International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde says she has more sympathy for poor African children than Greeks suffering under ... my mind all the time… I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.”