Reply #2: Interesting.

[dreamnightwind]

My knowledge of this is pretty shallow. I had assumed DSK was, in the IMF culture, a reformer who was to the left of traditional IMF ideology. In fact I had suspected he was targeted by TPTB for this reason. My basis for this suspicion was something I had read where I think DSK was saying that economic inequality was a destabilizing geopolitical force and needed to be reduced. That didn't sound like the IMF to me.

Palast doesn't seem to look at it this way. He sees DSK as part of the same policies that exasperated economic inequality. So perhaps DSK is just a womanizing pig that finally went too far. Dunno, look forward to watching this story spin out.