Where the IMF’s next managing director will come down on this issue – and on whether fiscal salvation is to be achieved through austerity, with costs borne by ordinary citizens, even as bankers get only a mild slap on the wrist – is critically important, but hard to predict. Despite the failure of the IMF’s strategy in East Asia, Latin America, and elsewhere, it still has adherents, even within the emerging markets.
IMF下任总裁将何时着手处理这个问题——而这一财政拯救行动是否是通过财政紧缩（由普通市民来承担成本，而银行家只是略伤了点皮毛）——则极端重要，却也是难以预测的。尽管IMF的策略在东亚，拉美和其他地区都不奏效，但依然有人拥护这个组织，甚至包括一些新兴市场国家。