Simone strikes again
Simone Wallmeyer, the face of the global financial crisis, looks like she’s in a slightly better mood today: Stock brokers go about their business at the stock exchange in the central German city of Frankfurt/M. on November 24, 2008. The DAX reacted positively to the US government’s promise to guarantee hundreds of billions of dollars ...
Simone Wallmeyer, the face of the global financial crisis, looks like she's in a slightly better mood today:
Simone Wallmeyer, the face of the global financial crisis, looks like she’s in a slightly better mood today:
Stock brokers go about their business at the stock exchange in the central German city of Frankfurt/M. on November 24, 2008. The DAX reacted positively to the US government’s promise to guarantee hundreds of billions of dollars of the banking giant Citigroup’s debt in a massive new bailout ahead of new global moves to lift the world economy.
Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating
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