Three big takeaways from the IMF-World Bank meetings

The world's finance chiefs spent last week in Bangkok debating the biggest risk facing the global economy — with debt, artificial intelligence and trade imbalances topping the list. Meanwhile, China, long a main risk factor in these discussions, was no longer at the top of the worry list. The Bangkok meetings were the first in Asia since 2018, when the gathering was held in Bali, Indonesia . Thailand last hosted in 1991, six years before the unpegging of the baht from the U.S. dollar set off the Asian financial crisis.