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    How Hamas Saved Egypt

    The Oct. 7 attacks pumped badly needed economic and political capital into a failed state

    byJudith Miller
  • Thomas Harrington McKittrick (date unknown) and the BIS headquarters in 1931, in a former hotel in Basel, Switzerland.(Collage Tablet Magazine; original photos courtesy of BIS)
    Thomas Harrington McKittrick (date unknown) and the BIS headquarters in 1931, in a former hotel in Basel, Switzerland.(Collage Tablet Magazine; original photos courtesy of BIS)
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    Meet the American Banker Who Helped Hitler Loot Jewish Gold—While Spying for the OSS

    Thomas McKittrick, head of the Swiss-based Bank for International Settlements, was a key go-between for the Axis and the Allies

    byAdam LeBor
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    Dominique Strauss-Kahn(Getty)
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    Gems from a Dominique Strauss-Kahn Story

    The former IMF Chief’s latest saga yields some impressive turns of phrase

    byAdam Chandler
  • A demonstration in Reykjavik.(Halldor Kolbeins/AFP/Getty Images)
    A demonstration in Reykjavik.(Halldor Kolbeins/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Ice and Fire

    Moses, the father of a radically egalitarian legal system, would have dug the soft financial revolution taking place in Iceland

    byLiel Leibovitz
  • Protesters in Tahrir Square, Cairo, on February 8.(Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
    Protesters in Tahrir Square, Cairo, on February 8.(Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
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    Quite A Six Months We’ve Had!

    That was the half-year that was, on The Scroll

    byMarc Tracy
  • Stanley Fischer last month.(Eric Piermont/AFP/Getty Images)
    Stanley Fischer last month.(Eric Piermont/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Israeli Central Banker DQ’d from IMF Job

    In surprise, global fund exercises age rule against Stanley Fischer

    byMarc Tracy
  • Stanley Fischer (L) and Dominque Strauss-Kahn (R) in Israel last year.(Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)
    Stanley Fischer (L) and Dominque Strauss-Kahn (R) in Israel last year.(Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Israel’s Fischer Wouldn’t Not Accept IMF Gig

    ‘We’ll see what happens,’ he says as others sing his praises

    byMarc Tracy
  • Stanley Fischer in 2005.(Chip Somodevilla/AFP/Getty Images)
    Stanley Fischer in 2005.(Chip Somodevilla/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Fischer to the IMF: It Could Happen!

    How Israel’s central banker would land the top job

    byMarc Tracy
  • Stanley Fischer last year.(Daniel Bar-On/AFP/Getty Images)
    Stanley Fischer last year.(Daniel Bar-On/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Who You Got on Next IMF Head?

    Two Jews, including Israeli central banker, are in the running

    byMarc Tracy
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    Run, DSK, Run!

    Could France soon see its first Jewish president?

    byMarc Tracy
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