We have been hearing a great deal about IMF concerns recently, after the release of its October 2016 World Economic Outlook and its Annual Meeting from October 7-9. The concerns mentioned include the following:
– Too much growth in debt, with China particularly mentioned as a problem
– World economic growth seems to have slowed on a long-term basis
– Central bank intervention required to produce artificially low interest rates, to produce even this low growth
– Global international trade is no longer growing rapidly
– Economic stagnation could lead to protectionist calls
These issues are very much related to issues that I have been writing about:
…related:
For How Long Can OPEC Talk Up Oil Prices?
