Fortun compares fuel-subsidy reforms abroad with Bolivia's constraints, warning that price shocks and weak political capacity make the impending adjustment socially difficult.
Marcello Estevão · Jonathan Fortun / Institute of International Finance
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Borrowing against securities can accelerate a market correction without predicting when one will begin. This analysis emphasizes changes in margin debt rather than its record level, tracing how collateral losses and forced deleveraging interact with tightening liquidity. A US unwind can transmit stress abroad through emerging market currencies, credit spreads and capital flows.
Fortun connects the political transition with opaque gold-backed financing and growing pension-fund exposure to public debt, arguing that these arrangements restrict future policy choices.
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Private US hiring had slowed sharply by August 2025, with employment gains increasingly confined to healthcare and education. Immigration restrictions reduced labor supply, helping keep unemployment low even as job creation weakened. Inflation also eroded real income growth. Together, these forces left the Federal Reserve balancing a softer labor market against price pressure from tariffs.
Fortun discusses de facto dollarization pressures as payment constraints and foreign-currency shortages weaken Bolivia's economy, stressing the need for a credible stabilization framework.
Marcello Estevão · Jonathan Fortun / Institute of International Finance
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Tariff costs begin reaching import and producer prices as inventory cushions run down, while immigration restrictions complicate the reading of US employment data. Manufacturing and private construction weaken even as overall demand appears resilient. This August 2025 assessment asks whether renewed inflation could arrive before growth slows enough to give the Federal Reserve room to ease.