Records shed light on euro crisis

When the United States wants to talk to Europe about the eurozone debt crisis, what number does it dial?

Economist Jean Pisani-Ferry has discovered the answer to Henry Kissinger’s apocryphal question by examining the published agenda and telephone records of US treasury secretary Timothy Geithner.

Between Jan 2010, after the crisis erupted in Greece, and Jun 2012, the last month for which records have been released, Geithner had 114 meetings and telephone calls with the heads of the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his successor Christine Lagarde, and their deputies.