{"id":7608,"date":"2023-04-12T13:22:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T13:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/imfs-fiscal-chief-says\/"},"modified":"2023-04-12T13:23:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T13:23:28","slug":"imfs-fiscal-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/imfs-fiscal-chief-says\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF&#8217;s fiscal chief says U.S. CPI data shows need to maintain inflation fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211;     The U.S. Consumer Price Index data for March shows persistent above-target inflation pressures, &#8220;validating&#8221; the International Monetary Fund&#8217;s emphasis on continuing to fight inflation at IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings this week, IMF Fiscal Affairs Director Vitor Gaspar said.<\/p>\n<p>Gaspar told a news conference that fiscal tightening could help remove upward pressures on interest rates by helping reduce fiscal demand and added that he saw little chance of a broad sovereign debt crisis in coming years.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by David Lawder)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/imfs-fiscal-chief-says\/imf-director-of-fiscal-policy-vitor-gaspar-answers-a-reporters\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3B0IK-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3B0IK-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. Consumer Price Index data for March shows persistent above-target inflation pressures, &#8220;validating&#8221; the International Monetary Fund&#8217;s emphasis on continuing to fight inflation at IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings this week, IMF Fiscal Affairs Director Vitor Gaspar said. Gaspar told a news conference that fiscal tightening could help remove upward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3B0IK-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7610,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7608\/revisions\/7610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}