Just as the Humphrey-Hawkins legislation in the 1970s put a new burden on the U.S. Federal Reserve, that of seeking full employment, so did Madame Lagarde appear to add a mission for the IMF, which was founded after World War II to help manage international capital flows to ward off balance-of-payment crises.
Last month, the Daily Telegraph reported that a badly injured soldier was verbally abused by a Muslim visitor who accosted him about the Iraq war on the public ward of an NHS hospital, where the soldier - like all casualties now - was being treated among civilians.