Countries like Canada, Korea, China, Germany can and should use fiscal space. Some of them are doing it, not all.
Christine LagardeOf course, trade agreements can be beneficial, but of course they need to avoid infringing on certain areas and respect diversity.
Christine LagardeYou know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.
Christine LagardePeople can buy the kind of things they consider as normal and take for granted because of globalization and trade and use of supply chains and the reduction of the cost base of the manufacturing of some products.
Christine Lagarde