• Can understand Bernanke on exit strategy
  • Unconventional tools needed to address crisis
  • G20 seeks more transparency on taxes
  • Sees breakthrough on tax evasion in coming years
  • Tax evasion fix will take some time
  • Not concerned about emerging market slowdown, but growth still strong
  • Growth returning to French economy
  • Investment key to French economic revival
  • France needs to cut less useful spending
  • Wants to stabilise tax pressure for companies

There’s the problem, the time it takes the bozos to get a plan in place for tax evasion the companies will have a million and one other ways to dodge it. Governments and revenue collectors have always been light years behind the curve and will remain so.

French finance minister on BBG tv in Moscow