Christine Lagarde

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"The ultimate goal is clear — to have a financial system that is less prone to instability and better able to serve the real economy," the IMF's Christine Lagarde said Thursday at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. (Associated Press)

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International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde leaves her apartment building in Paris for a French court on Thursday, May 23, 2013. Ms. Lagarde is being investigated by the special court over a controversial arbitration deal that she oversaw as French finance minister in 2008. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde gestures as she talks with Cyprus’ president Dimitris Christofias, unseen, during their meeting at the presidential palace in Nicosia, Cyprus, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. Lagarde is in Cyprus for an informal European economic and financial affairs council. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

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IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde speaks during a news conference in the International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings at the IMF headquarters in Washington on Saturday, April, 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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** FILE ** International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde speaks at the Associated Press Annual Meeting in Washington, Tuesday, April, 3, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, on Thursday called for a worldwide safety net similar to the reserve fund that European institutions have created to bail out debt-ridden members. (Associated Press)

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Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, speaks at the annual meeting of the Associated Press in Washington on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Christine Lagarde, left, talks with Tunisian Finance Minister Jelloul Ayed during the group photo at the Deauville partnership meeting in Marseille, southern France, Saturday, Sept.10, 2011. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)