The first, which chronicled the emerging markets crises of the late 1990s, was The Chastening: Inside the Crisis that Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF (PublicAffairs, 2001); the second was And the Money Kept Rolling In (And Out): Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of Argentina (PublicAffairs, 2005). [...] It the IMF to address the imbalances in the years prior to the is a detailed account of the initiatives, led by the IMF, to crisis. [...] The story 2007, the plan released by the five participants was derided also illustrates in stark terms how the decline in US power, in the media as essentially a restatement of commitments especially relative to China, has eroded Washington’s that the IMF had made already — notwithstanding the capacity to exercise leadership and work its will in the Fund’s efforts to depict the talks as successful [...] The managing director also noted the rarity of such reserves accumulating in the coffers of governments consultations in the past and the difficulty of proving a throughout the developing world, few countries were charge of manipulation, since it required showing that interested in IMF loans — one result being that the Fund’s the reason for the manipulation was to gain competitive interest income [...] Much the IMF-World Bank spring meetings the following month, of their criticism of the effort to revise the 1977 decision the ministers who oversee the Fund formally endorsed the focused on the impossibility of drafting rules that would idea as one of the key components of de Rato’s revised reflect truly objective judgments about currency levels.