Bangladesh said it will continue negotiating with the International Monetary Fund on key reforms the IMF has set as conditions for the balance of a $5.5 billion loan, with Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury holding meetings in Washington with the global lender’s officials. The talks covered revenue collection, banking sector reforms and broader financial changes — key conditions tied to...
Bangladesh said it will continue negotiating with the International Monetary Fund on key reforms the IMF has set as conditions for the balance of a $5.5 billion loan, with Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury holding meetings in Washington with the global lender’s officials. The talks covered revenue collection, banking sector reforms and broader financial changes — key conditions tied to the loan arrangement, according to a statement from the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington. “Most issues were resolved, though both parties acknowledged that disagreements remained on certain points,” the embassy said, without elaborating. Chowdhury met with Nigel Clarke, deputy managing director at the IMF, and Krishna Srinivasan, its Asia-Pacific director, on the sidelines of the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings, according to the statement. “The IMF made it clear that it is a development partner of Bangladesh and will remain by Bangladesh’s side as a development partner throughout the tenure of the current democratically elected government,” it said. The new Bangladesh administration, led by Prime Minister Tarique Rahman , took office in February. The embassy dismissed reports that the IMF had halted disbursements under its lending program. “This news is completely false. The IMF took no such decision.” Bangladesh secured a $4.7 billion IMF bailout in 2023 to shore up its dwindling foreign reserves after a severe balance-of-payments crisis, with the package later expanded by $800 million. The IMF has already disbursed part of the loan. Disbursements have been contingent on reforms the country has struggled to push through, particularly on energy subsidies and tax collection.
格隆汇4月18日丨美国国务院17日表示，美国政府已批准一项潜在交易，以向德国出售价值119亿美元的海军综合军事系统及相关设备。消息说：“美国国务院已决定批准向德国政府出售一套综合作战系统、辅助设备及支持保障服务的潜在交易。预计总价值为119亿美元。“这项潜在交易包括：8套基于“宙斯盾”系统的MK 6 MOD X综合作战系统（ICS）舰载计算基础设施、同等数量的AN/SPY-6(V)舰载雷达站、MK...
格隆汇4月18日丨美国国务院17日表示，美国政府已批准一项潜在交易，以向德国出售价值119亿美元的海军综合军事系统及相关设备。消息说：“美国国务院已决定批准向德国政府出售一套综合作战系统、辅助设备及支持保障服务的潜在交易。预计总价值为119亿美元。“这项潜在交易包括：8套基于“宙斯盾”系统的MK 6 MOD X综合作战系统（ICS）舰载计算基础设施、同等数量的AN/SPY-6(V)舰载雷达站、MK 41 Baseline VIII通用垂直发射装置，以及舰载协同作战系统和其他设备。消息补充说：“此次拟议军售将完善德国的国家和领土防御水平，增强其与美国及北约部队的作战协同性，从而加强德国海军应对当前及未来威胁的能力。”
Arsenal were booed off after their Premier League defeat by Bournemouth - and boss Mikel Arteta will not want tension to seep on to the pitch against Manchester City.
Arsenal were booed off after their Premier League defeat by Bournemouth - and boss Mikel Arteta will not want tension to seep on to the pitch against Manchester City.
sankai/iStock via Getty Images By Ryan McMaken In spite of more than four years of claiming that price inflation was transitory, and that it would quickly return to the Fed’s two-percent target, the Fed has insisted on more easy-money policy over the past 18 months. In that time, the Fed has cut the target interest rate by 175 basis points and has returned to quantitative easing through monthly $4...
sankai/iStock via Getty Images By Ryan McMaken In spite of more than four years of claiming that price inflation was transitory, and that it would quickly return to the Fed’s two-percent target, the Fed has insisted on more easy-money policy over the past 18 months. In that time, the Fed has cut the target interest rate by 175 basis points and has returned to quantitative easing through monthly $40 billion purchases of Treasurys. Through it all, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has repeatedly described monetary policy using some variation of “restrictive.” In his most recent FOMC press conference, for example, Powell described the Fed’s policy as “borderline restrictive” or “modestly restrictive.” To be fair, this suggests a slight movement away from Powell’s earlier dubbing of US monetary policy as “relatively restrictive” late last year, and as “clearly restrictive” before that. Indeed, it may be that current policy is “restrictive” compared to, say, the policies of Bernanke and Yellen. But recent data on the money supply suggests that the money supply in recent months is finding plenty of room to increase rapidly, in spite of what Fed officials say. All these claims of restrictive monetary policy fail to ring true when we look at actual movement in the money supply. For example, the money supply has increased every month for five of the past six months. Moreover, when measured year-over-year, the money supply has accelerated over the past three months and is now at the highest rate of growth seen in 44 months—or since June of 2022. While the money supply largely flatlined through much of mid-2025, growth has clearly accelerated since August of last year and has clearly been trending upward since June of 2023. During February, year-over-year growth in the money supply was at 5.56 percent. That’s up from January’s year-over-year increase of 4.90 percent. Money supply growth is also up sizably compared to February of last year when year-over-year growth was 2.39 percent. ...