Refugees and Realpolitik

... the international financial community that populism is not a threat? Christine Lagarde of the International Monetary fund noted recently that the current spate of populism and nationalism do not pose a threat to globalization. Jim Kim, boss of the World Bank, served up a similar message at the semiannual meeting of that organization. Stanley Fischer, the deputy chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, meanwhile, has long viewed populism as a threat to the global economy, in one instance calling ...