The International Monetary Fund, which accepts deposits from developed nations and makes loans the developing nations, releases its semi-annual World Economic Outlook, predicting that the spreading effects of the United States “subprime” (junk) mort-gage crisis could generate as much as 1,000,000,000,000 “dollars” in financial losses world-wide.
[restored 3/29/2024]
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References:
IMF World Economic Outlook Reports
www.imf.org/external/ns/cs.aspx?id=29
http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/Groups/public/Documents/apcity/unpan033507.pdf
unpan1.un.org/intradoc/Groups/public/Documents/apcity/unpan033507.pdf