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EUROPE’S ELECTION WINNERS FACE DRASTIC CONFLICTS
The U.K. and France both elected new parliaments this month and the new governments already face seemingly impossible tasks: fulfilling their mandates for dramatic changes while struggling with massive public debt, which has metastasized far beyond pre-COVID levels.
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GOVERNMENT DEBT SETS RECORD AT $97 TRILLION
Worldwide, governments at all levels now owe a record $97 trillion, the UN Trade and Development Organization reported last week.
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IMF WARNS WEST THAT STEALING PROFITS FROM RUSSIAN ASSETS CAN UNDERMINE GLOBAL MONETARY SYSTEM
The International Monetary Fund warned last week that the Western push to confiscate Russian assets or the interest on these funds could dramatically undermine the global monetary system.
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TOP TREND 2023, OFFICE BUILDING BUST: IMF WARNS OF LOOMING CRISIS IN COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE
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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ARGENTINA’S INFLATION PASSES 211 PERCENT AS MILEI ENACTS TOUGH MEASURES
Argentina’s 2023 inflation rate was 211.4 percent, Bloomberg reported, beating Venezuela’s 193 percent for the year’s worst price spike.
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AFRICA WILL LEAD ECONOMIC GROWTH IN 2024, IMF SAYS
Among the world’s ten fastest-growing economies this year, six will be in sub-Saharan Africa, the International Monetary Fund said in a report last week.
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IMF DEVELOPING GLOBAL DIGITAL CURRENCY PLATFORM
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is developing a platform that central banks’ digital currencies (CBDCs) can use to clear transactions between countries, executive director Kristalina Georgieva announced on 19 June.
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IMF SOFTENS CRYPTO STANCE…FOR THE MOMENT
A new report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has moderated previous calls for outright bans of cryptocurrencies.
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MAJOR ECONOMIES MUST REIN IN BORROWING, IMF SAYS
China, the U.S., U.K., Brazil, Japan, South Africa, and Turkey are likely to increase their national debts by five percentage points of GNP from now through 2028, Vitor Gaspar, policy director of the International Monetary Fund, said last week in comments quoted by the Financial Times.