October 10/2018/IMF By Vitor Gaspar, Jason Harris, and Alexander Tieman What is the state of your personal finances? You probably think first about your debts: your mortgage, your credit card balance, and your student loans. But you probably also think about how much cash is sitting in the bank, the […]
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A Decade After the Global Financial Crisis: Are We Safer?
October 2018/IMF EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In the 10 years since the global financial crisis, regulatory frameworks have been enhanced and the banking system has become stronger, but new vulnerabilities have emerged, and the resilience of the global financial system has yet to be tested. Since the last Global Financial Stability Report […]
IMF: World Economic Outlook, October 2018 – Challenges To Steady Growth
October 9, 2018/IMF The steady expansion under way since mid-2016 continues, with global growth for 2018–19 projected to remain at its 2017 level. At the same time, however, the expansion has become less balanced and may have peaked in some major economies. Downside risks to global growth have risen in […]
