Stanley Fischer mixed rigour and realism, compassion and calm
H e looked ridiculous , his wife assured him. Stan Fischer, the number-two official at the IMF , was supposed to be enjoying a holiday on Martha's Vineyard in July 1998. Instead, he was perched on a sand dune, mobile-phone at his ear, trying to negotiate a bail-out of Russia, a country deemed 'too nuclear to fail'. Opinion Columns Finance & economics Free exchange
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