Mr Mussa argues that the Fund failed to press Argentina to address the shortcomings in its fiscal policy.

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Mussa Nditi also fluffed another golden opportunity with only the Zambian goalkeeper at his mercy late in the game.

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But there is a silver lining, says Mussa, now a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.

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That argument has been made forcefully, most recently by Michael Mussa, formerly the IMF's chief economist and now at the Institute for International Economics in Washington.

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The effect is self-magnifying, Mussa says, because economic interconnectedness means a global downturn will happen more quickly, spread more widely and go deeper than it otherwise would.

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Mussa thinks that "global uptrend" should happen sometime next year.

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Research chief Michael Mussa told a press conference that further interest rate rises were likely to be needed in the US to slow economic growth to a sustainable level.

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"When underlying forces are going in different directions, with the U.S. economy tending to slow and the rest of the world still pretty strong, it helps push us up at the same time it's slowing them down a little bit, " says Michael Mussa, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund.

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