As late as November of last year, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn had thrown cold water on Brazil’s efforts to stem inflows of speculative “hot money,” and said that he would not recommend such controls “as a standard prescription.”
En novembre dernier, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, le responsable du FMI, jouait encore les rabat-joie face à la volonté brésilienne de taxer les flux de capitaux spéculatifs et refusait d’ériger ce type de contrôles en norme.