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Banking stability worries go behind closed doors at IMF-World Bank meetings
WASHINGTON, April 17 (Reuters) – Just a month after the biggest banking crisis in more than a decade, the world’s top economic and financial policymakers gathered in Washington and said surprisingly little about financial system stability – at least publicly. With financial markets calmed by strong policy actions to stem the outflow of bank deposits, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings were instead dominated by calls to keep up the fight against inflation, accelerate debt restructuring for poor countries and avoid geopolitical fragmentation of the global economy. Some officials conveyed a sense that banking system safety was further down the priority list of global economic problems. “One…
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An economist who correctly predicted the Great Financial Crisis says the world’s central banks have chosen ‘class war over financial stability’
Marshaled by the U.S. Federal Reserve, central banks around the world have had a unifying philosophy over the past year: Bring down inflation no matter the cost, even if it means risking pain for people and businesses. But that approach has been questioned more than ever this month in the wake of several high-profile banking collapses in the U.S. and Europe. Now a British economist who predicted the 2008 global financial crash has escalated the issue, saying central banks prefer “class war over financial stability.” The Fed and other central banks have underlined tight labor markets and high wages as key underlying causes behind inflation. But while loosening job markets…
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