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IMF outlook

The IMF’s Optimistic Vision Of The Global Outlook

In the IMF blog there is a brief view of how well the year has gone and the promises for the future which we can extract from this good performance. For me it’s proof of an excess confidence which in the past was a trap into which the markets systematically fell. But the IMF has to accept the rationalistic view that the markets don’t get it wrong, while I maintain they quite often make mistakes.




During the first quarter, growth was robust in the US and in Spain

The synchronisation and strength of global growth is a reality

Intermoney | This week we will see the publication of the first chapters of the IMF’s six-monthly report on Global Economic Perspectives, which should be more favourable than on previous occasions. The synchronisation and the strength of global growth is a reality and the data over the coming months won’t call this into question.


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Could reforms have prevented Greece’s economic collapse?

Yiannis Mouzakis via Macropolis | Greece’s economic collapse in 2010-2013 has become legendary. The country had already been hit hard by the global financial crisis in 2009, when it posted a sharp GDP drop of -4.3 percent. This set the stage for what would become the deepest economic contraction of a developed country in history. But would the implementation of structural reforms have helped alleviate this situation?





Greece and the IMF

The IMF And Greece’s Bitter Pill

Yiannis Mouzakis via Macropolis | What you are going to read could very well be extracts from a Yanis Varoufakis interview in the first half of 2015, when – in a clumsy manner that rubbed everyone up the wrong way – he was advocating that Greece and its lenders should change course.