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Growth is firmly in positive territory, and we have slightly upgraded our forecast for this year to 3.2%.

Yet, there is plenty to worry about.

Inflation is down, but not gone.

In the US, strong economic performance has a flip side.

That was Kristallina Gorgieva,

managing director of the IMF, speaking last week about the challenges facing the global economy.

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Lovely to be here, Amy and Jonathan.

So the message from the IMF last week, you were there in Washington, D.C. Is that America is the global economy's top performer. So what is the IMF so

pleased about? What is the US getting right? Well, there was good news and bad news from the IMF meetings

last week. Remember, this is a semi-annual meeting. They do it twice a year to kind of take stock of the

global economy and where we are at. And the good news was

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