Christine Lagarde, it seems, is not the only French Ministerwho has trouble grasping the basics of fiscal economics.

France’s former justice minister Rachida Dati became the subject of international ribaldry after she confused oral sex with inflation during a TV interview.
Dati originally made the racy gaffe in a weekend interview on French TV program during a heated discussion of foreign investment funds.

“When I see some of them looking for returns of 20 or 25% at a time when fellatio is close to zero, and in particular in a slump, that means we are destroying businesses,” she told Canal Plus. The French word for fellatio is “fellation,” which shares some syllables with “inflation” – pronounced the same in French as in English.

Fellatio futures went down on the news.