Under Madame Lagarde, the IMF is having some second thoughts about cutting deficits.
Over the course of history, whenever governments have over-borrowed and become enmeshed in a debt trap, they have typically resorted to a process of financial repression as a means of redressing the problem.
Robin King, director at Move with Us, the residential property services company, analyses trends in the private rental sector over the past 12 months.
Yields have rocketed on secondary assets in commercial property, presenting a compelling story for investors, according to Richard Tanner of AEW UK.
The idea of absolute return investing generates an enormous amount of hot air and vitriolic debate for what is a relatively small amount of money.