CHINA/IMF/STEVE MNUCHIN/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The International Monetary Fund on Friday [8-9-19] provided little or no support for President Donald Trump’s assertion that China is manipulating its currency for an unfair trade advantage. In an annual review of China’s economic policies, the IMF said Beijing actually took steps last year to prop up the value […]
Category: IMF [International Monetary Fund]
10/8/2018
CHINA/IMF/TARIFFS/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The trade war is set to take its toll on the American and Chinese economies in 2019. The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday [10-9-18] cut its growth forecasts for the United States and China, citing the recent waves of tariffs the world’s top two economies have imposed on each other. The […]
10/1/2018
IMF/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WORLD BANK/WTO: “Good intentions and realpolitik rarely mix. That may well be the case with proposals from a trio of international bodies that seek to address some of U.S. President Donald Trump’s gripes with the World Trade Organization while providing ways for other countries to liberalize commerce without his signoff. The report, […]
6/4/2018
CANADA/ECONOMY/IMF/NAFTA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Canada is in a period of heightened economic anxiety due to U.S. trade and tax policy, the International Monetary Fund said Monday [6-4-18], warning it could have a profound impact on investment and growth in the country for an extended period. The warning from the Washington-based agency emerges just as tensions […]
4/17/2018
ECONOMY/IMF/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The global economy is looking stronger than it has in years, but as world leaders gather here this week for the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund, they will be particularly attuned to possible economic disruptions stemming from decisions being made just a few blocks away at the White House. […]
10/11/2017
ECONOMY/IMF/TAXES: “The International Monetary Fund delivered a blunt warning to international policy makers ahead of the fund’s annual meeting this week: Governments risk undermining global economic growth by cutting taxes on the wealthy. The message, while aimed broadly at all developed nations, carries particular resonance in the United States as the Trump administration and Republican […]
7/20/2017
IMF: “The International Monetary Fund is failing to meet internal rules meant to increase transparency at the world’s emergency lender, according to a Wall Street Journal review of executive board documents. Missing from public view is potential insight into the fund’s high-level deliberations during one of the most eventful periods in its seven-decade history. The […]
7/19/2017
IMF/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA/WORLD BANK/WOMEN: “A billion-dollar World Bank initiative to advance women’s entrepreneurship, funded in part by Saudi Arabia and championed by Ivanka Trump, might seem a laughably easy target for reproach. There is Saudi Arabia’s treatment of women — they aren’t even allowed to drive alone — and the growing role of the ‘first daughter’ […]
7/7/2017
IMF/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The International Monetary Fund and Germany have a joint message to President Donald Trump as he arrives here for the Group of 20 summit: Don’t turn your back on a world forged by the U.S. Mr. Trump should focus on the evolution of international institutions and use them as pillars to […]
4/24/2017
CABINET/IMF/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/STEVE MNUCHIN/WORLD BANK: “Leaders of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund may have this past weekend won the qualified backing of the Trump administration, but their work is hardly done. Both institutions will likely still have to prove to their largest and most powerful shareholder that they represent an efficient […]