Stanley Fischer, who as IMF official helped defuse financial crises, 81

Dr. Fischer was then the number two leader— essentially the point person— at the International Monetary Fund. For Dr. Fischer, the interruption came with the territory, though packed, as it was, with monetary minefields. Dr. Fischer, who served as head of Israel’ s central bank and as vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board in addition to his IMF time crafting bailouts for…