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The IMF has just released its great forecast for 2026, and it's a damning indictment of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.
How far could the shock ripple through the global economy?
And is a U.S.-Iran deal on the cards?
That's what I asked a former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Chas Freeman.
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The Iran war has put global growth on hold.
The IMF has lowered its global growth forecast to 3.1 percent, down from the 3.3 percent it projected in January,
saying the global outlook has abruptly darkened following the outbreak of war in the Middle East.
The IMF made the adjustment in its latest World Economic Outlook report released this week.
Growth numbers reporting a five percent gdp growth so how much damage is the war in iran causing to the global economy
what changes are happening to the world's largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity
and how is that going to affect you i'm pleased to be joined from taipei by alicia garcia ferrero chief economist for asia
pacific at natixis a french multinational financial services firm and senior fellow of the european think tank Here
in the studio, I'm joined by Lee Luen, Assistant Professor of Economics at Peking University.
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So the IMF, as I said, lowered its global growth forecast from 3.3% to 3.1%.
Olivier Gurrensha, the IMF's chief economist,