The Diplomat
People, composure and the difficult conversation held well.
Christine Lagarde reads as The Diplomat because her authority has always been built on trust across fractured coalitions. From the IMF through the Eurozone debt crisis to the European Central Bank amid pandemic and inflation shocks, she leads by absorbing diverse national perspectives and mediating between competing economic doctrines.
“So if the financial agents, and in particular the traditional banking sector, can remedy that and the digital euro can be an instrument, then that element of business case goes.”
“Economic development at entrepreneurial level that it facilitates, I think those are precious, precious principles that we have to secure. And if it requires reduced benefits in some areas, I think we should be prepared to consider that.”
“I think she's managing to keep 27 very sizable ego on the same plane and that is very hard. Because of that European construction where you have twenty seven leaders who are in charge of they constituencies, accountable to their constituents, have electoral timeline.”
“The whole labour market is under the shock of demographic evolution, right? So working forces in most of Europe is Beginning to decline, which will require new forces. I think we've exhausted the women forces, although there might be some pockets of availability. We will be employing people for a longer period of their life.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Christine Lagarde”
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