Oh fuck me.

Here's a book I CERTAINLY won't read

I have high tolerance for literary bullshit, see Capitalism book club (#1561710) and my recent venture into natural resource management (#1565551), The Natural Dividend.

I will not be reading Christine Lagarde (the verifiable lizard, #1401553) spouting nonsense about her public life #1020250

Man, just look at that dead awful cover. Trustworthy (or punchable??) face?

Christine Lagarde has always been first: France’s first female minister of economic affairs and finance, the first woman to lead the International Monetary Fund, the first female president of the ECB,” the press release said. “Now, for the first time, she tells the story of her own life.

oh, that's an exciting rumour. Maybe we Europooreans lose her...? Bad news: it'll just be to some other equally punchable schmuck -.-

News of the memoir arrives as rumors build that Lagarde won’t see out her eight-year term at the ECB, which wraps up in October 2027. Bloomberg reported last month that the World Economic Forum, known for its annual gathering in Davos, is still courting her to take over and that she appears ready to accept the role.

“President Lagarde agreed to write her autobiography with a co-author,” an ECB spokesperson said. “The project is a private activity, carried out in the president’s own time, and isn’t using ECB resources.”

Very important to note, eh. No seigniorage went into the making of this book-length trash. And no AI, obviously:

Lagarde worked with German journalist Marc Hujer, who writes for Spiegel magazine and has already penned three books, among them a biography of actor-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger. Lagarde and Hujer have known each other for more than a decade, with Hujer accompanying her to southeast Asia and Africa for a profile in 2013 when she was managing director of the IMF.