If (banks) don’t lend too much credit, and if they manage their risk, it might reduce the work that we have to do to reduce inflation, but if they reduced too much credit, then it will weigh on growth excessively.

Christine Lagarde

Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde (; née Lallouette, ; born 1 January 1956) is a French lawyer and Union for a Popular Movement politician who has been the Managing Director (MD) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) since 5 July 2011. Previously, she held various ministerial posts in the French government: she was Minister of Economic Affairs, Finance and Employment and before that Minister of Agriculture and Fishing and Minister of Trade in the government of Dominique de Villepin.

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