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An Uneven COVID Recovery Widens Global Current Account Imbalances: Is U.S. Outperformance A Problem?

A salient characteristic of the economic impact of COVID-19 – both the initial shock and the evolving recovery - has been the extraordinary extent of the unevenness. We have documented this from both a macro and credit angle in our most recent Credit Conditions round. Continually imbalanced growth – and current accounts – will raise the risk of macro-credit disorder.

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