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...UAW president Shawn Fain has repeatedly said the shift to electric vehicles, which currently comprise about 8 per cent of new car sales, must be “a just transition” that “does not leave workers behind”....
...Further reading From the FT The IMF’s Maurice Obstfeld looks at the fallacy of trade deficits. Is Norilsk Nickel too big to sanction?...
...Maurice Obstfeld, the International Monetary Fund’s chief economist, says: “We don’t want to use the period of the mid-2000s as our benchmark of what is normal and healthy.”...
...Instead, it said, better than expected growth in other advanced economies would keep the global economy on track for what Maurice Obstfeld, the fund’s chief economist, called the “broadest synchronised upswing...
...But “whether the current momentum will be sustained remains a question mark,” said Maurice Obstfeld, the fund’s chief economist. “The world economy still faces headwinds.”...
...Maurice Obstfeld, the IMF’s chief economist said the IMF stuck by its longer term forecast that Brexit would “reduce potential output and therefore be negative” for the UK economy....
...Maurice Obstfeld, the IMF’s chief economist, says the present optimism should be tempered by the lower potential growth in productivity that governments seem to have been too ready to accept since the crisis...
...Maurice Obstfeld, the IMF’s chief economist, said the likelihood of that fiscal stimulus happening outweighed the possibility of Mr Trump delivering on his campaign threats to impose new tariffs on goods...
...Maurice Obstfeld, the IMF’s chief economist, issued a similar warning on protectionism, noting the risk that a sharp rise in the dollar could push the US into a destructive trade war with China....
...Low growth and a slow recovery from the 2008 crisis were fuelling “political tensions [which] have now made advanced economies a major locus of policy uncertainty”, the IMF's chief economist, Maurice Obstfeld...
...Shawn Pasternak, Washington, DC You Don’t Look Your Age . . . and Other Fairy Tales by Sheila Nevins....
...economy on Tuesday, the IMF sharply lowered its 2016 growth forecast for the US to 1.6 per cent from the 2.2 per cent it predicted in July, and for advanced economies as a whole to 1.6 per cent, writes Shawn...
...But Maurice Obstfeld, the IMF’s chief economist, argues that efforts by governments to protect industries from outside competition driven by the 2008 crisis have become significant for the global economy...
...But in a new blog post published on Thursday that offers a preview of a deeper study to be released ahead of next month’s IMF/World Bank spring meetings in Washington, Maurice Obstfeld, the fund’s chief...
...“Those who promote ‘getting tough’ with foreign trade partners through punitive tariffs should think carefully”, said the IMF’s Maurice Obstfeld earlier this month....
...“Growth has been too slow for too long,” said Maurice Obstfeld, the IMF’s chief economist, warning of a widespread sense that too many people were being left behind....
...Reporting by Shawn Donnan in Washington Read more here...
...Maurice Obstfeld, the IMF’s new chief economist, said the humanitarian crisis posed by the millions fleeing conflicts in Syria and Iraq was likely to strain budgets in some destination countries, such as...
...Maurice Obstfeld will replace Olivier Blanchard in early September after spending the last year advising Mr Obama....
...Maurice Obstfeld, the IMF’s new chief economist, is expected to make his debut with a downgrade to the fund’s current 3.3 per cent prediction for global growth this year....
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...The only potential Olympic medallist absent is Shawn Crawford of the US, who, in any case, is likely to do better in the 200m in Athens....
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