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]

Subsequent Events:

4/3/2008                  8/7/2008

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

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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