The Good News, Bad News About the Surprisingly Strong US Economy
This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, US Treasury reporter Christopher Condon looks at how the world views strong US economic growth. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.
Two hot themes emerged as the lords of international finance gathered in Washington this week for the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank: The US economy’s surprising strength is carrying global growth (Yay!) and robust US growth is making life difficult for everyone else (Boo!).