While old news to Trends Journal subscribers, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has become the latest entity to warn of a pending crisis in commercial real estate, a trend we have been warning about since the beginning of the COVID War in our continuing series, Office Building Bust.
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GERMANY’S ECONOMY SHRANK BY 0.3 PERCENT IN 2023
Germany—battered by high interest rates, slowing global sales and continued high energy costs—Europe’s largest economy and the fourth largest one in the world... saw the heart of its manufacturing industry contract by 0.3 percent in 2023, according to the country’s National Statistics Office.
MORE BIG U.K.COMPANIES WILL FAIL THIS YEAR
High borrowing costs and penny-pinching consumers will combine to drive more large British corporations into insolvency this year, several U.K. bankruptcy specialists told Yahoo.
HIGH U.S. INTEREST RATES SPARK “CRISIS” AMONG EMERGING NATIONS
Many emerging nations are being thrown into a “silent debt crisis” by high interest rates in the U.S., the World Bank has warned.