Desmond Lachman, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, is a former deputy director of the International Monetary Fund’s Policy Development and Review Department and a former chief emerging-market economic strategist at Salomon Smith Barney.
In their seminal 2009 book, Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen M. Reinhart showed that, in confronting sovereign-debt crises, the four most dangerous words one can utter...
According to the International Monetary Fund’s Articles of Agreement, the Fund’s main purpose is to facilitate the balanced growth of international trade and thereby promote...