The IMF released its World Economic Outlook this week from the spring meetings in DC, cutting global growth to 3.1% for 2026. Before the Iran war, they were planning to upgrade. That gap is the story.
This week on The Tradeoff: what the downgrade actually means, why Kristalina Georgieva's \"targeted and temporary\" language is diplomat-speak for we're out of money, and why the Fed and the ECB held rates in lockstep for completely opposite reasons. Plus: the petrodollar question nobody is asking out loud, and why \"pick two\" isn't a hypothetical anymore.
For policy professionals, senior executives, and anyone trying to read the global economy without the doom-and-gloom soundtrack. Under 12 minutes, as always.
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