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The IMF’s decision last week to revise Saudi’s GDP for this year down to 2% from its 3.1% forecast in April was probably inevitable given the widespread retrenchment currently…
IMF says America’s $39T national debt is actually a global problem — and AI may be the only rescue
America’s $39 trillion national debt has become a familiar political football—batted around in budget negotiations, invoked at congressional hearings, and…
Chinese President Xi Jinping issued some of his starkest language yet about the state of the global economy on Tuesday,…
Trump claims America is ‘winning so much.’ The IMF agrees, adding that Trump’s trade policies are the only thing holding it back from even more
The U.S. economy remains the envy of the world in many respects, at least in President Donald Trump’s telling. But…
America’s $901 billion trade deficit is like ‘chronically high cholesterol,’ top economist says, and Trump’s 150-day tariffs are the wrong medicine
President Donald Trump has framed the U.S. trade deficit as a “national emergency” and a threat to Americans’ “way of…
AI productivity gains are making the rich richer, and they’ll wipe out jobs—but the IMF chief sees a silver lining for low-wage workers
Productivity gains from artificial intelligence are disproportionately boosting high earners, but an argument exists that the dynamic can lift low-wage…
When U.S. President Donald Trump wasn’t stealing the show, the hottest topic of this year’s Davos summit was artificial intelligence.…
On Monday morning in Davos, nearly 3,000 participants from 130 countries gathered to discuss what the World Economic Forum calls…
IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva dismisses impact of Trump trade war: ‘Trade is like water, you put in an obstacle, it goes around it’
The escalating trade clash between the U.S. and China has investors on edge, fearing it could mark the beginning of…
Scott Bessent says the World Bank and IMF need a total overhaul: ‘Mission creep has knocked these institutions off course’
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, in remarks to the Institute of International Finance on Wednesday, called for a sweeping overhaul at…












