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IMF Warns About Emerging Markets: Hello “Always Late” IMF, Global Crisis Coming
IMF Warns About Emerging Markets: Hello “Always Late” IMF, Global Crisis Coming The IMF is finally warning that there may be an emerging market crisis. Hello IMF, it’s already here. Look ahead. The IMF is perpetually late in its forecasts. Here’s the latest hoot: IMF Warns of Possible Emerging-Markets Crisis. A new study by the […]
Severe US Recession Would Slash Public Wealth By $5 Trillion: IMF
Severe US Recession Would Slash Public Wealth By $5 Trillion: IMF As part of the IMF’s latest global economic forecast, which for the first time since 2016 saw the D.C.-based organization cut its global growth forecasts, the IMF warned that a severe recession would slash US public wealth by about $5 trillion, causing vastly more […]
IMF Slashes US Growth Outlook, Blames Rates & Trade; Sees Venezuelan Inflation 10-Million-Percent
IMF Slashes US Growth Outlook, Blames Rates & Trade; Sees Venezuelan Inflation 10-Million-Percent Confirming Director Lagarde’s warning that “clouds on the horizon have materialized,” The International Monetary Fund is downgrading its outlook for the world economy, citing rising interest rates and growing tensions over trade. The IMF said Monday that the global economy will grow […]
Spain: IMF Highlights Rising Risks
Spain: IMF Highlights Rising Risks The International Monetary Fund can be criticized for many things, but its analysis of countries’ debt risk tends to be worth a read. In this case, the International Monetary Fund has once again warned Spain of the risk of reversing reforms and increasing imbalances. It asks to deepen in the labor reform […]
World economy at risk of another financial crash, says IMF
World economy at risk of another financial crash, says IMF Debt is above 2008 level and failure to reform banking system could trigger crisis The floor of the New York stock exchange in September 2008. Photograph: Richard Drew/AP The world economy is at risk of another financial meltdown, following the failure of governments and regulators […]
Argentina Hikes Rates To 65% As Peso Plunges To New Record Low
Argentina Hikes Rates To 65% As Peso Plunges To New Record Low It appears the market is willing to test BCRA’s mettle as it pukes pesos down to a new record low against the greenback and pushes towards the bottom of its new “no intervention” band. The new record low is now 41.54/USD… While not […]
Argentina Gets Record $57 Billion As IMF Boosts Bailout, Creates “No Intervention” Zone For The Peso
Argentina Gets Record $57 Billion As IMF Boosts Bailout, Creates “No Intervention” Zone For The Peso Just a few months after the IMF announced in June what was a record-setting $50 billion, 36-month bailout agreement with Argentina, the International Monetary Fund said it would expand the credit line to $57 billion in an attempt to […]
Argentine President Admits “More Poverty” To Come, Announces Price Controls, Higher Taxes, Smaller Govt
Argentine President Admits “More Poverty” To Come, Announces Price Controls, Higher Taxes, Smaller Govt Having been told by The IMF that he must stop using their bailout funds to prop up his currency (which has been utterly futile), Argentine President Mauricio Macri addressed the troubled nation this morning to announce his plans to satisfy Christine […]
Peso Set To Disintegrate After IMF Tells Argentina To Stop Supporting Currency
Peso Set To Disintegrate After IMF Tells Argentina To Stop Supporting Currency On May 11, three days after Argentina secured a $50 Billion IMF bailout – the largest in the fund’s history – we jokingly noted that with the peso resuming its slide, an indication the market did not view the IMF backstop as credible, […]
A Review of “The Production of Money” and Reflection on the Climate Movement
A Review of “The Production of Money” and Reflection on the Climate Movement “…over the past few months the IMF has been sending warning signals about the state of the global economy. There are a bunch of different macroeconomic developments that signal we could be entering into another crisis or recession in the near future. One […]
Genocide of the Greek Nation
Genocide of the Greek Nation The political and media coverup of the genocide of the Greek Nation began yesterday (August 20) with European Union and other political statements announcing that the Greek Crisis is over. What they mean is that Greece is over, dead, and done with. It has been exploited to the limit, and […]
Looks Like Italian Default is Back on the Menu
Looks Like Italian Default is Back on the Menu Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini was right to call out the EU over the failure of the bridge in Genoa this week. It was an act of cheap political grandstanding but one that ultimately rings very true. It’s a perfect moment to shake people out of […]
Turkey Rules Out Capital Controls As Germany Says IMF Bailout “Would Be Helpful”
Turkey Rules Out Capital Controls As Germany Says IMF Bailout “Would Be Helpful” During this morning’s conference call organized by Citi, HSBC and other banks with “thousands” of investors, Turkey’s Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak – the Jared Kushner of Turkey – eased nerves when in an attempt to bolster confidence, said that capital controls […]
Talk Cold Turkey
Talk Cold Turkey Henri Matisse View of Nôtre Dame 1914 Recep Tayyip Erdogan became Prime Minister of Turkey in 2003. His AKP party had won a major election victory in 2002, but Erdogan was banned from political office until his predecessor Gül annulled the ban. Which he had gotten in 1997 for reciting an old […]
Oil Prices At Risk Of Economic Downturn
Oil Prices At Risk Of Economic Downturn Oil prices have retreated as disrupted supply from Libya has started to come back online, threatening the recent gains in oil prices. But a bigger threat to crude over the second half of 2018 and into 2019 is a slowdown in the global economy. The International Monetary Fund […]
