I swear I have seen this woman recently– was she featured in Inside Job?
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I swear I have seen this woman recently– was she featured in Inside Job?
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cat48
Haven’t seen Inside Job yet, but she visits Geithner a lot & she’s interviewed by the American media a lot. I’ve seen her on Cspan, PBS, network news, etc.
Chinn Romney
You probably saw her on SNL, under her stage name ‘Martin Short’.
JGabriel
It’s Tilda Swinton in a white wig and age make-up.
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draftmama
Yes she was interviewed for the movie – cool woman
mai naem
she looks like meryl streep in the devil wears prada
someofparts
The woman you’re thinking of from Inside Job is Gillian Tett, U.S. Managing Editor of the London Financial Times – http://www.leighbureau.com/speaker.asp?id=461 – and doesn’t look like the same person to me.
Napoleon
Wasn’t she either on Colbert or The Daily Show?
Napoleon
@Napoleon:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-april-27-2009/christine-lagarde
Bruce
Yes, she was interviewed in the movie.
drew42
Yes. From what I remember, she was one of the good guys, who saw what was happening but couldn’t get anyone to do anything about it.
jibeaux
I don’t know, but I don’t think she’s “one of the most recognizable people on the planet.”
I’m referencing the horrifying Ben Stein piece, if you haven’t read that. What a fucking tool. Before these allegations, I doubt you could find a person in Grand Central Station who could have identified that man.
Sideshow Bill
IMDB is your friend!!
someofparts
Kirsten Gillibrand was on the Daily Show, and resembles the woman in the picture, but it’s not her.
drew42
Just looked up the movie, and confirmed she is who I thought.
Lagarde came across as very intelligent, and having a full understanding of the problems and how to correct them. And was frustrated that so many others didn’t (or wouldn’t) see what was going on.
She would probably be my next choice to head the IMF, after Krugman.
UPDATE: by “very intelligent” I don’t mean some backhanded compliment (like “articulate”). I meant she seems to be much smarter than I am — which is something I like in world leaders.
Tim F.
No, the woman in the pic clearly played “Max” in the first Mission Impossible.
Napoleon
@someofparts:
Click on the link I posted.
Hawes
Its Allison Janney of the West Wing in an Andy Warhol wig.
Keith
not so reassuring – she also comes with recent problems concerning financial favors for fave friends.
blondie
Yes, she’s in Inside Job. She was the one who said that no one in the US government bothered to give a heads-up to Europeans about letting Lehman collapse, that she found out only after the fact (since the Bushies didn’t realize that Lehman’s bankruptcy would have worldwide repercussions – bright folks).
Omnes Omnibus
@blondie: The whole lot of them just weren’t very bright, were they?
JGabriel
@Napoleon:
NY Times:
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sb
Yep, that’s her.
Love the snarky comments by the kewl kidz here. From her comments in the movie, one would think she would be worthy of admiration beyond making fun of her looks and calling her an idiot.
Fuck the lot of you, I say.
shortstop
@sb: I’m missing the part where someone called her an idiot — can you point out that post?
The looks comments may be irrelevant but they’re not particularly personal, either — it’s just BJ being BJ. No one here has shown any disrespect for Lagarde’s work and several people have offered the admiring remarks you’re looking for.
bayville
@drew42:
Yeah. She’s a real woman of the people.
You might have seen her photo from her website: enoughthinking.com.
Tom Betz
Yes, she was featured in Inside Job.
Watch the interview here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqIp48ZfBLw
RobertB
From the article…
So is this guy actually saying that it would be nice if the IMF was headed by someone a little less rapey?
spartacus
Lagarde is currently under investigation in France for having given a payout of damages to the businessman Bernard Tapie against the advice of her staff.
See:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/11/christine-lagarde-invetigation-bernard-tapie
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13347659
I wouldn’t see her as a good candidate.
res ipsa loquitur
The key thing re Lagarde in the movie seemed to be that she and the Europeans had no idea what shape Lehman was in until after Lehman melted down. Hence, the “Holy Cow”. If you watch the “Inside Job” extras, Yves Smith makes the point that this suggests that Lehman was engaging in fraud b/c no way someone in Lagarde’s role could not have known how bad the Lehman situation was.
Xenos
@sb:
Kewl Kidz? Mostly geeks around here. The snarky hipsters hang out at Sadlyno.com
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
@Xenos:
link?
boss bitch
@someofparts:
?? Uhm, not even close.
jayackroyd
Off topic for NY folks.
My Congresswoman, Carolyn Maloney, just sent a note that she’ll be running a phone bank on Tuesday for Hoschul. If you’re in the City and wanna stop by and help, drop me a note.
Her office is, depending on how you look at it, on the northern end of the Upper East side, or just south of Harlem. 3rd between 92 and 93.
[email protected]
RossInDetroit
@ John Cole
Taking a break from rubberizing the garden and digging a garage?
gex
So she’s the French Elizabeth Warren? No offense to the menfolk here, but maybe we could use a few more women up there to watch over the boys. (See how you guys are men, and the sociopaths are boys?)
gex
@drew42: Doesn’t it suck the way assholes have made it difficult to complement people in oppressed groups?
celticdragonchick
Yep.
She was in the movie.
bjacques
I hope she gets the job, for the opening paragraph in the above NYT article alone. Robert Diamond’s thanks were for letting the bankers keep the money they stole, and as empty as a lot of people’s wallets afterwards. Ms. Lagarde’s reply was a notice that the same old bullshit wasn’t going to fly anymore.
I don’t know whether she’d be a reformer like DSK, but I get the impression she’d be careful about who gets bailouts and how they plan to spend the money (and pay it back).
MTiffany
She was on Charlie Rose a couple of months back…
trollhattan
@RossInDetroit:
Heh, don’t forget steam-cleaning the ceiling carpets and alphabetizing & chronologizing the pantry.
sb
@shortstop: I misread Omnibus.
But.
The snarky comments about her looks? No apologies for saying loud and proud, “Fuck y’all.”
Larkspur
Okay, I’ll talk about her looks. She’s pretty damn magnificent looking. She’s way better looking than me, and damnit, she’s kinda sorta a wee bit younger as well.
If there was a room with an IQ thermometer in it, and you put Lagarde and the light of my life Elizabeth Warren in there together, the thermometer would vaporize. Then invite Melissa Harris-Perry into the same room, and I will cheerfully swear fealty and enlist in their army.
someofparts
Okay. Sure. If the picture that comes up now was the one that came up when I first clicked on the link, absolutely. In fact, the image in the link now even says who it is. It’s just not the same picture that came up the first time I clicked on the link this morning.
bjacques
I forgot to mention that Mr. Diamond of Barclays testified at a British Parliamentary committee a few months ago. When asked whether he would waive his bonus, he infamously said that the time for banker remorse was over:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/8253523/Bob-Diamond-Time-for-banker-remorse-is-over.html
Mmmm…Tilda Swinton…
lunaticfringe
I don’t get the love for her.
Christine Lagarde Defends European Austerity:
Brachiator
@bjacques:
Who is glamming it up at Cannes and making visually interesting TV commercials.
DuckMan
yup, she of the pimped out gold leaf louis quatorze office…
shortstop
@sb: Then you’re going to have to do that about twice a day here if you plan to be at all consistent. This crowd has fun commenting on the countenances of just about everybody, male and female, and by no means just conservatives.
Lysana
I am unamazed that Mme. Legarde comes with baggage. She’s too high-up NOT to. Sadly, it may still make her the safest bet out of the lot.
Enough about her looks. Can I have her read things to me? That voice. Contralto with just enough accent. purrrr
Triassic Sands
@someofparts:
Nope, he’s thinking of LaGarde, who was interviewed in Inside Job. In the commentary portion of the extras, both the producer and director of the film speak very highly of her.
Montarvillois
Would appreciate fair warning when a link directs readers to the NYT. Clicking on this link has used-up one of my 20 free carefully-selected visits a month to one of their columns.