Stunned resignation and foreboding: a week in Trump’s shadow at IMF

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Few policymakers mention US president by name, but his tariffs dominate IMF-World Bank meeting

Kristalina Georgieva’s favourite film, the International Monetary Fund boss told the audience at a packed panel event in Washington on Thursday, is Tom Hanks’s cold war romp Bridge of Spies.

In one of the stranger digressions in a frequently strange week, Georgieva recalled the moment when Hanks’s character, a US lawyer, tells the Soviet spy he has been appointed to defend..


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source: The Guardian - 25.04.2025

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