Global finance

  • Osborne: The UK is a hard sell right now

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves is at the World Economic Forum in Davos meeting potential investors with a core message that, despite what they might have heard from companies already working there, Britain is open for business. She arrived in the wake of two signals she believes demonstrate growth really is a priority, one intentional, the other…

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  • Russian Central Bank: West could upend global financial system

    The global financial system would be disrupted if Brussels and Washington go through with threats to use Russian sovereign assets to help Ukraine, the head of the Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina, warned on Friday. Nabiullina noted that the principle of protecting the reserves of national central banks is a fixture in international law. “This…

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  • How the IMF and World Bank destroyed Africa

      The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) were set up during the end of the Second World War (WWII) to rebuild the economies of Europe. However, in order for the World Bank and IMF to implement their policies, they global financial institutions began offering loans to poor countries but only if the…

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