Reading about economics and economy is both interesting and may be critical to your comfort and survival. Get the Economist magazine (for an expert view), the Christian Science Monitor (for a balanced view), or the Wall Street Journal and read about what is going on in the messy economic environment that our world leaders have under the Bush administration managed to drag up. Now is not the time to have your head in the sand like an ostrich waiting to be a lion's next meal. The time is now to become well informed about those critical economic statistics that get published each month and that mean something to the well informed in energy and economy. The IMF is an organization that brings together the government financial leaders of the countries making up the globe. It is important to be informed about what goes on in the world's energy and financial worlds as these drive all other segments and sectors of the world economy for better or worse.