With the real economy resurgent, the World Bank and IMF could be reformed to manage capital flows and make trade deals about trade again. But the mood in Washington makes this unlikely.
Lee Harris
Lee Harris is a staff writer at The American Prospect. In 2020, she co-founded New York Focus, an investigative news site on New York politics. Prior to that, she was editor of the independent newspaper at the University of Chicago.
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