Davos 2024

Global Debt Specter Sours Davos Cheered by Soft Landing Hopes

  • Forum puzzles over public-finance impact of high rates
  • IMF is ‘more worried’ about liquidity this year, Gopinath says
WATCH: IMF First Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath in Davos.Source: Bloomberg
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Too much debt — and the danger that global economies could take on even more of it — is troubling Davos participants confronting dangers posed by the year ahead.

While several attendees at the World Economic Forum took comfort this week from the mounting likelihood that swiftly jacked-up interest rates won’t cause immediate damage to growth, they’re now worrying again about the lingering financial impact.