Washington, D.C. Thursday, January 23, 2014 MR. MURRAY: Good day. I’m Bill Murray from the Communications Department at the International Monetary Fund here in Washington. This is our biweekly press briefing. Let me remind everybody that we’re under embargo until 10:30 a.m. Washington time, that’s 2:30 p.m. GMT. Let me start off […]
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