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Ryan Bridge: Should we care what the IMF thinks?
Don't you find it annoying when some economist or think tank or some 'group' comes to our country and tells us what they think we need to do to make it better?
There's the odd case where you'd want to listen; former world leaders, current world leaders, banks who lend you money, rating agencies who dictate your cost of borrowing.
But your OECDS, IMFS and World Banks, and United Nations?
They all come down here, someone tells them we don't have a capital gains tax and they say, uh, well, you guys need a capital gains tax. And raise your pension age.
The IMF is here doing this right now.
They…
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