Finance ministers and central bank governors from the world’s 20 largest economies are set to converge on Asheville this month for a pair of high-level meetings that U.S. officials say will help shape global economic policy for the coming year — and put the recovery of post-Helene Asheville in the international spotlight.
Asheville is the first ministerial-level finance meeting held outside a national capital or major financial center in recent years. The Trump administration said it chose Asheville deliberately to showcase the effectiveness of the government’s response to disaster recovery, and also to tout the broader economic successes of the administration’s policies.
It’s an honor the state, regional, and local officials say is welcome, but complicated…