Bart Piasecki

Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center

[Atlantic Council GeoEconomics Center @ACGeoEcon]

🌎 Global debt is at levels not seen since World War II.
@IMFNews Fiscal Affairs Director Rodrigo Valdés joins @ACGeoEcon’s @bart_piasecki, at our #IMFWBAM26 studio, to discuss the structural drivers of rising debt and the role of fiscal policy. ⬇️
https://t.co/A9GmQsCdlT

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IMF’s @KGeorgieva in New York during #UNGA: Winter is coming. Inflation up, growth down. The “Tepid Twenties” on the horizon.

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Poland’s growth story has been impressive, strong enough for @SPDJIndices to reclassify it as a developed market. But years of large fiscal deficits are catching up: @Moodys just cut Poland to A3. Developed-market status, emerging-market borrowing costs. Fiscal discipline matters

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Stay updated with our App brining the Thailand’s meeting to you!

[Atlantic Council GeoEconomics Center @ACGeoEcon]

📲 BEFORE | As the Meetings approach, our experts are diving into the topical challenges and regional context framing the this year's Meetings through issue briefs and blog posts.

Download our IMF-World Bank Week app to access our analysis right from your pocket: https://t.co/W0jE2arabN

[Atlantic Council GeoEconomics Center @ACGeoEcon]

📲 BEFORE | As the Meetings approach, our experts are diving into the topical challenges and regional context framing the this year's Meetings through issue briefs and blog posts.

Download our IMF-World Bank Week app to access our analysis right from your pocket: https://t.co/W0jE2arabN

[Atlantic Council GeoEconomics Center @ACGeoEcon]

🇹🇭 What does geoeconomic fragmentation mean for the ASEAN-5?

Jessie Yin speaks with @AMohseniC about the emerging risks and opportunities explored in his new issue brief for our Road to Bangkok series.

Watch the interview. ⬇️

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Check out my new chart. It’s pretty cool.

[Atlantic Council GeoEconomics Center @ACGeoEcon]

📈 Stock market indices are becoming increasingly concentrated.

A handful of stocks now drive a growing share of index performance, while sectors like tech and finance carry more weight. That can mean higher returns—but also greater risks.

[Atlantic Council GeoEconomics Center @ACGeoEcon]

📈 Stock market indices are becoming increasingly concentrated.

A handful of stocks now drive a growing share of index performance, while sectors like tech and finance carry more weight. That can mean higher returns—but also greater risks.

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Stock market concentration is rising across major indexes.

South Korea’s KOSPI shows how quickly strong returns can become a market vulnerability, writes @ACGeoEcon’s @bart_piasecki:
https://t.co/hSDDdsHteB

[Atlantic Council GeoEconomics Center @ACGeoEcon]

LIVE NOW | Navigating a fragmenting world: The IMF’s role in a changing global economy 07-15-26 https://t.co/VosVwFTSXN

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🔔UPCOMING | Join us for the conversation with @IMFNews' Christian Mumssen on how the Fund is adapting its tools to navigate fragmentation, AI, and trade-offs facing policymakers worldwide. The event will take place at 10:00 am on Wednesday, July 15, both in-person and online. Register here.⬇️
https://t.co/DxiI6oRXOQ

[Atlantic Council GeoEconomics Center @ACGeoEcon]

🇹🇭 Save the Date: In October, we will bring the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings to you with live coverage, exclusive interviews, expert analysis and special events from our studio inside the official venue.

Whether you're in Bangkok, Washington, or anywhere in between, we’ll bring the meetings to you through our app, website, and newsletter.

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✈️ Today, President Trump landed in Beijing to meet with 🇨🇳Chinese President Xi Jinping, their first face-to-face in 6 months.

Get caught up on the big issues framing the meeting with our pre-summit reading list ⬇️

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Poland has found an unlikely celebrity in Edward Warchocki, a Chinese robot equipped with locally developed software that has debated politicians and chased wild boars off the streets of Warsaw. https://t.co/uRv3XkBcIU

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LIVE NOW | #ACDailyBrief: Day 2 of the @WorldBankGroup and @IMFNews #SpringMeetings2026. Watch the Atlantic Council’s Ohimai Amaize and @ACGeoEcon’s @bart_piasecki preview the day’s top events and key speakers. https://t.co/q6VjVIyGqK

[Atlantic Council GeoEconomics Center @ACGeoEcon]

📊 How do economies weather and recover from defense spending and conflict?

@IMFNews Economist @Hyppobalima joins @ACGeoEcon's assistant director @Bart_Piasecki to discuss how conflicts and defense spending impact growth, inflation, and debt.⬇️
https://t.co/mzHvnHfvNA

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👥 IMF-World Bank Week at the @AtlanticCouncil is one month away, and we are pleased to announce a few of the outstanding speakers joining us alongside IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings from April 13th to 17th.

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@GSiemionczyk Gold represents only a fraction of Poland’s official reserve assets; even after liquidating all, the country’s reserve ratio would remain ample. Poland is currently at about 162 percent of the International Monetary Fund reserve adequacy metric.

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🇪🇸 Today, President Trump threatened to cut all trade with Spain after it refused U.S. access to its military bases in support of strikes on Iran. In 2025, the U.S. imported $21.3 billion from Spain.

To see what the US is importing from Spain, check out our data visualization. 👇

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🗓️ SAVE THE DATE | IMF–World Bank Spring Meetings at the Atlantic Council

This April in Washington, global leaders gather amid rising trade tensions and geopolitical uncertainty. Join us for high-impact discussions on global growth, multilateralism, fintech, and development finance.

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