We all default to one prevalent role, that of Victim, Rescuer, Persecutor (or a combination).

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To some extent she has taken the role by default, as America has stepped back from peacemaking.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

The decision by the Fed to offer emergency liquidity to Bear Stearns and to facilitate its acquisition by JPMorgan Chase had less to do with the size of Bear's balance-sheet than with its central role in markets for credit-default and interest-rate swaps.

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Lightly regulated and nearly opaque, hedge funds played a central role in the creation of credit-default swaps and other financial exotica that led to the economic collapse of 2008.

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And, of course, no one is better suited to reinvent this role than a woman who, by design or default, has learned to reinvent herself so often.

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Mr Rato played an important role as an intermediary in the IMF's most difficult case of the past few years: the default of Argentina in 2001.

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