International Monetary Fund（IMF） Managing Director Christine Lagarde gestures while speaking at a news conference during the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings at IMF headquarters in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013. Lagarde said the global economy is in a slow and unbalanced recovery, and warned that US failure to raise the debt ceiling because of impasse over the government shutdown would seriously damage the American as well as the global economy.

十月十日周四，國際貨幣基金（IMF）總裁拉加德在世界銀行和IMF年會的記者會上發表演說，且手勢不斷。年會是在位於華盛頓的IMF總部舉行。拉加德說，世界經濟目前在緩慢而失衡的狀態中復甦，並針對美國因政府關門陷入僵局而未提高債務上限之事提出警告，表示這將嚴重損害美國與全球經濟。