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China’s housing rescue too small to end crisis, analysts say

Hindustan Times 20 May 2024
Commercial lenders’ involvement will “limit the speed and efficacy of fund deployment,” Rory Green, chief China economist at TS Lombard ... (Updates with report on returning buyers, market reaction, more economists’ views, and banks’ LPR decisions.).
photo: AP / Mark Schiefelbein
Cracks in dried mud are seen on a portion of the dry riverbed of the Jialing River in southwestern China's Chongqing Municipality, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. Ships crept down the middle of the Yangtze on Friday after the driest summer in six decades left one of the mightiest rivers shrunk to barely half its normal width and set off a scramble to contain damage to a weak economy in a politically sensitive year.
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A first glimmer of hope for China property

Asiatimes 20 May 2024
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IMF Ghana programme blamed for cedi’s decline

Ghana Business News 19 May 2024
Prof Bokpin. Professor Godfred Bokpin, an economist and finance expert, has attributed part of the cedi’s depreciation to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) programme with Ghana ... Prof ... Prof ... Mr ... Dr ... Source. GNA ....
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As wealth inequality rises in Cyprus both people and democracy suffer

CyprusMail 19 May 2024
He is a former senior economist at the International Monetary Fund, an ex-advisor in the Cyprus finance ministry and a former senior advisor at the Central Bank of Cyprus ....
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China unveils 'historic' steps to stabilise crisis-hit real estate sector

Hindustan Times 17 May 2024
"It's a positive and encouraging direction, that the governments are stepping in to buy housing inventory," said Larry Hu, chief China economist at Macquarie ... and how much they'll fund in the end.".
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China pledges to buy apartments and finish stalled housing projects

RTE 17 May 2024
The homes would be used to provide affordable housing, He said, without giving a timeline or a target for the purchases, nor detailing how they would be funded ... Funds raised by developers were also down 24.9% year-on-year.
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The Guardian view on antimicrobial resistance: we must prioritise this global health threat

The Observer 17 May 2024
As apocalyptic horror stories go, it’s up there with the scariest ... AMR does not so often get top billing ... we are not doing enough to avert disaster ... The economist Jim O’Neill proposed a prize fund to pay drug companies for developing new antibiotics ... .
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Javier Milei’s extreme experiment in Austrian economics is sailing dangerously close to the wind

AOL 16 May 2024
“If the government has got any sense it will do what the International Monetary Fund and every economist in Argentina is telling them to do, and start to devalue a little more each day,” said ...
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Watch: PM Christopher Luxon speaks to business leaders ahead of Budget 2024

RNZ 15 May 2024
Luxon repeated his commitment - questioned by many economists - that the Coalition would not be borrowing to fund tax cuts. He said the government had generated savings and raised money in other ways to ensure the tax package was "fully-funded" ... ....
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Analysis: Biden’s false claim that inflation was 9 percent when he took office

Detroit news 15 May 2024
Blanchard, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, and Ben S ... Biden’s bill, passed in early 2021, might have especially fueled spending - as some economists (including Blanchard) warned at the time it would.
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Walmart slashing hundreds of corporate jobs, asks remote workers to relocate or quit

New York Post 14 May 2024
3 ... The mandate that remote workers report into the office is a closet way to get people to quit instead of doing a layoff,” said Brian Jacobsen, chief economist at Annex Wealth Management, which holds Walmart in mutual funds and ETFs it manages.
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Revenue Estimating Conference boosts projects, giving Louisiana more money to spend

Daily Advertiser 13 May 2024
Excess funds ... The estimating conference, made up of top government officials and economists, increased the state general fund forecast for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1, by $88.6 million.
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Pakistan’s Army as a Nemesis to its Economic Growth

Greek City Times 13 May 2024
The milbus economy involves funds that are not a part of the defense budget but are rather activities in direct or indirect control of military officers or their associates ... Though some economists ...
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Panama’s new president inherits a success story gone wrong

Taipei Times 13 May 2024
“All these challenges, plus the depletion of funds to meet pension spending, have Panama with its back against the wall,” JPMorgan economist Steven Palacio and his colleagues wrote in a report on Monday last week.
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History already tells us the future of AI

The Manila Times 12 May 2024
The evolution of his thinking, including some points that he missed, holds many helpful lessons for us today ... Simon Johnson is a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management ... Copyright.
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