As policymakers leave IMF-World Bank talks, they take with them a sense of foreboding

Apr 25, 2025 - 07:15
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As policymakers leave IMF-World Bank talks, they take with them a sense of foreboding

Institution leaders sought to reassure delegates there was no need for panic despite uncertainty caused by Trump

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 that he will probably be executed. “You don’t seem alarmed,” Hanks says to him; to which the spy – played by Mark Rylance – replies, “Would it help?” Continue reading...

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