‘A foot out in the cold’: leaders huddle at IMF as icy economic winds blow - short news
Worries over private credit, tax and spend, skittish bond markets and tariff chaos dominate meeting in Washington
“The security blanket is covering us, but maybe we have a foot out in the cold.” That was the typically colourful warning from the International Monetary Fund’s managing director Kristalina Georgieva this week to its gathering of finance ministers in Washington.
At its spring meetings in April, the IMF said the erratic trade policies emanating from the White..
source: The Guardian - 17.10.2025