Site Contributions: International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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| 06/17/13 - Shut Down the IMF
IMF warns US economic recovery has been slowed by 'ill-designed' cuts but warns Congress against spending less on infrastructure and education ... IMF managing director ... |
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| 06/06/13 - Lies the IMF Tells?
IMF: Our Greek bailout was full of 'notable failures'... The International Monetary Fund has published a scathing internal self-assessment of its bailout of Greece three years ... |
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| 05/31/13 - Bill Gates Reaps the Rewards of 21st Century Success?
Bill Gates Criticizes Zambian Economist And She Responds With Fire ... On Tuesday this week, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates attended a Q&A session at the University of New ... |
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| 05/30/13 - Central Bankers: Debase to Create
Central Banks Act With a New Boldness ... When James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, arrived in Frankfurt last week, he issued an unusual public ... |
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| 05/13/13 - Spain's Problem is Europe's, Too
Spain is officially insolvent: get your money out while you still can ... I'd not noticed this until someone drew my attention to it, but the latest IMF Fiscal Monitor, ... |
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| 04/23/13 - What is Greece, and What Does It Pull?
Greece will probably pull through ... Greece is not yet out of the woods. But there is a credible path that could lead the country back into the sunlight. That's the main ... |
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| 04/19/13 - Inevitable Futility of Austerity? Britain Down for the Count?
The Biggest Economic Experiment Of The Last 5 Years Has Ended In Disaster ... The U.K.'s economic story for the past five years has been bleak. Since then there have been two ... |
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| 04/12/13 - Austerity Comes to America
The Scary Message for Everybody in Obama's Budget ... Most Americans will ignore the dickering over the federal budget that President Barack Obama wants Congress to pass this ... |
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| 04/04/13 - New American Explains the New BRICs Order – That's What We're 'Talkin' About!
BRICS Regimes Forge New World Bank, Call for Global Currency ... The governments and dictatorships ruling over the so-called BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, ... |
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| 04/04/13 - A Regulatory Illusion
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is much in the news these days given that Europe is convulsed first by monetary incompetence and then by IMF-oriented "austerity." As ... |
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| 04/03/13 - More Damage: Euro Tumbles as Reserve Currency
Developing World: Euro Loses Attraction as Reserve Currency ... Countries in the developing world are drastically reducing their euro holdings as economic instability in Europe ... |
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| 04/01/13 - Shock: Is Australia Really Falling Under the Orbit of China?
Thanks, World Reserve Currency, But No Thanks: Australia And China To Enable Direct Currency Convertibility ... A month ago we pointed out that as a result of Australia's ... |
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| 03/28/13 - Why Western Banks Are Being Destabilized
In a previous post, I explained that banks are inherently fragile. One way to make them more robust is to increase equity capital requirements ... A genuinely radical approach ... |
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| 03/26/13 - BRICS Plan for New IMF: Trojan Horse for Western Agenda?
BRICS Nations Plan New Bank to Bypass World Bank, IMF ... The biggest emerging markets are uniting to tackle under-development and currency volatility with plans to set up ... |
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| 03/21/13 - Globalization: Random or Directed?
How Globalization Went Pop and What It Means for Workers ... How do you measure how fast the world economy has "globalized"? Borrow a concept from physics. Call it global ... |
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| 03/18/13 - Shock: Globalist Plan for IMF Failing in US Congress?
Is the US holding back IMF reform? ... The legislation would implement reforms agreed by the G20 in 2010, which were described by then IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss ... |
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| 03/12/13 - Japanese Solution for Collapsing Portugal?
The Great Portuguese Hollowing Out ... With every passing day Portugal has less and less economy left, while fewer and fewer people remain to try to pay down the debt. As ... |
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| 03/06/13 - Africa ... Next China?
Celebrations are in order on the poorest continent. Never in the half-century since it won independence from the colonial powers has Africa been in such good shape. Its economy ... |
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| 02/28/13 - Internal IMF Study: Fund Has Gained World's Trust by Advocating Currency Debasement
IMF is regaining trust ... The International Monetary Fund has improved its image since the global financial crisis and should address member countries' long-standing criticism ... |
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| 02/25/13 - IMF: 'World Economy Could End as We Know It ...'
Christine Lagarde: "2013 Will Be Make or Break" Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, cautioned at the World Economic Forum in Davos that ... |
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| 02/18/13 - Counterpunch African Paradigm Leaves Much to Be Desired
The West's War Against African Development Continues ... Africa's classic depiction in the mainstream media, as a giant basketcase full of endless war, famine and helpless ... |
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| 02/06/13 - Investors Beware of Central Banks Bearing Austerity
IMF: Central banks must be responsible for financial stability ... Financial stability should become a core central banking objective alongside monetary policy, although ... |
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| 01/28/13 - The Heroism of Iceland's Grimsson, the Man Who Stood Up to the Banksters
Iceland President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson tells Al Jazeera's Stephen Cole that Europe should let banks that are ran "irresponsibly" go bankrupt. Speaking at the annual World ... |
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| 01/23/13 - Elite Depression at Davos
Inertia reigns as elite return to Davos ... The theme of this year's WEF Davos meeting is "Resilient Dynamism" ... Some of the world's most influential leaders will be faced ... |
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| 01/11/13 - Now Greece Bans Cash – Again
Greek Finance Ministry plans to put an end to cash payments. Purchases worth more than 500 euro will be not possible with cash money anymore. Finance minister Yiannis ... |
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| 12/28/12 - NGOs Plot Wave of Criminal Referrals to Legitimize International Criminal Court
NGOs Submit Evidence to ICC on Crimes Against Humanity and Impunity in Honduras, Call on Court to Take Up Case ... Today, two leading human rights organizations submitted ... |
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| 11/23/12 - Europe's Fine Line of Deep Debt
Merkel's day of reckoning as taxpayer haircut on Greece looms ... Germany, Holland, and the creditor states of northern Europe have not lost a single cent on eurozone rescue ... |
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| 11/21/12 - Euro Crisis: Major Implications For Investors
The euro crisis has begun to feel like an everlasting steeplechase with high hedges and water obstacles blocking the path to economic resurgence on the Continent. Each time a ... |
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| 10/22/12 - Rediscovering IMF Working Papers
IMF's epic plan to conjure away debt and dethrone bankers ... So there is a magic wand after all. A revolutionary paper by the International Monetary Fund claims that one could ... |
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| 10/12/12 - Greece Still the Word, Time Still Money
Battle of Bailouts; Coca Cola, Greece's Biggest Company Leaves Germany and the IMF, which in recent past seemed ambivalent at best to keeping Greece in the eurozone, are ... |
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| 10/11/12 - The IMF Turns Tail on EU Austerity
Why the IMF has got it so hopelessly wrong on the euro crisis ... David Cameron and George Osborne are not for turning, but the International Monetary Fund is plainly made of ... |
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| 10/09/12 - IMF Solutions Reinforce Problems
IMF: Global economic slowdown is getting worse, US must avoid 'fiscal cliff' ... Updated at 8:30 a.m. ET The International Monetary Fund said the global economic slowdown is ... |
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| 09/06/12 - Work Those Greeks! Advent of Modern Slavery?
EU Says Greeks Should Work Six-Day Week: Report ... In the leaked letter, reported in The Guardian newspaper, the European Commission, European Central Bank, and International ... |
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| 08/14/12 - IMF Launches Old-Fashioned Propaganda on YouTube
Out of the Ashes (Rebuilding the International Monetary System)? ... The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 188 countries, working to foster global ... |
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| 07/21/12 - What Is the Real Reason for Doyle's Letter Blasting the IMF?
A senior economist for the International Monetary Fund, Peter Doyle, has merely reaffirmed what is evident and obvious about the IMF ... that it is not a proactive organization ... |
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| 07/03/12 - Madame Lagarde Prolongs the Pain
IMF warns on U.S. economy ... Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, is encouraging U.S. lawmakers to focus on boosting the economy now, and ... |
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| 04/26/12 - Taxpayers, Don't Let Them Fail! Spanish Banking on Brink ...
Spanish banks 'vulnerable' and may need public help, says IMF ... Spain, already struggling to contain its public debts, may need to pump more taxpayer money into its ailing ... |
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| 04/16/12 - IMF Exploits Euro-Crisis to Create Global Money Power
Euro Area Seeks Bigger IMF War Chest on Spanish Concerns ... European officials travel to Washington this week seeking a bigger global war chest to combat the debt crisis as ... |
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| 04/13/12 - Debt Crisis Plotted to Deliver the Euro to the IMF?
Spanish bailout 'impossible' for eurozone, says prime minister Mariano Rajoy ... The eurozone is not equipped to bail out Spain, the country's prime minister Mariano Rajoy has ... |
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| 03/27/12 - Elites Crush PIGS – Old Game Plan Made Anew?
Spain's economy contracts as recession fears grow ... The Spanish economy has shrunk for the first time in two years, increasing fears the country could be heading for a ... |
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| 01/27/12 - Accenture Spells Out Next Stage of Manipulated Globalism
Live from the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Mark Spelman, Managing Director, Strategy - Accenture, shares insights from a new Accenture study - ... |
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| 12/16/11 - Smoke and Mirrors of Global Depression Reflect the Inevitability of the IMF?
Brussels accord on the verge of collapse ... Some of the world's most powerful investment banks were downgraded by ratings agency Fitch as Germany's cherished European fiscal ... |
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| 11/22/11 - IMF Expands Lending Again Due to Phony Crisis
No potential customers for the IMF's new lending facility have yet been named, but as Italy and Spain continue to struggle with their cost of borrowing they would seem like ... |
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| 11/08/11 - Der Spiegel: 'Consensus Is Growing' for ECB and IMF Takeover of Euro-Crisis
'Run For Your Lives' ... Euro Zone Considers Solution of Last Resort: The ink on the most recent European Union summit agreement was hardly dry before it became clear that it ... |
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| 09/26/11 - Week-long Unrest in Greece Ahead of Troika Meeting
DB's top story today features Greece's increasingly furious middle class and analyzes the BBC's grim prediction that Greek civil society could unwind considerably if the ... |
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| 08/14/11 - Thomas Jacob on the New Swiss Gold Franc, Why the EU Is a Bad Idea and Why an IMF Managed Currency Would Be Tragic
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Thomas Jacob (left) . Introduction: Mr. Jacob studied economics at Zurich University and spent a year ... |
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| 08/11/11 - Central Bankers Race Toward Global Currency Solution
Central bankers are racing to shield their economies from fiscal tightening and lopsided currency swings that threaten a new global recession. In the 72 hours after a Group of ... |
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| 08/08/11 - DB Briefs: UD Debt Downgraded / Asian Markets Fall / China Wants Global Currency / ECB Begins Market Intervention
S&P Downgrades US Credit Rating to AA-Plus The United States lost its top-notch triple-A credit rating from Standard & Poor's Friday, in a dramatic reversal of fortune ... |
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| 07/29/11 - IMF: Turning Crises Into Opportunity
IMF's Lagarde Says Clock Ticking for U.S., European Policy Makers on Debt ... Christine Lagarde (left), the new head of the International Monetary Fund, urged U.S. policy ... |
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| 07/25/11 - China – Third Pillar of a Broken World Economy?
China's spectacular real estate bubble is about to go pop ... So you thought that UK housing was unaffordable. Try Beijing and Shanghai, where ... prices are off the scale ... |
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| 07/20/11 - IMF: EU Crisis Is a Global Disaster
Eurozone debt crisis could prove 'very costly' for the world, warns IMF ... The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged eurozone leaders to take immediate action over the ... |
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| 07/04/11 - EU Yard Sale: Location Greece – Everything Goes!
Greek sovereignty to be massively limited: Juncker ... Greece faces severe restrictions on its sovereignty and must privatize state assets on a scale similar to the sell off of ... |
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| 07/01/11 - Western Media Continues to Be Addicted to Keynes
Americans cannot have a European-style welfare state, a modern infrastructure, and a defence budget equating to 4.5pc of GDP unless they are prepared to pay for it. I know I'll ... |
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| 06/30/11 - Greece: Frazzled Eurocrats Play for Time
The Greek government [pushed] through Parliament an austerity package to avert a default on billions of euros in government debt. Success, only postpone[s] an unsavory choice ... |
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| 06/23/11 - Greece – Salvation by Politicians
The Reboot Greece Needs ... Greece's prime minister, George A. Papandreou, comfortably survived a confidence vote on Tuesday, momentarily stabilizing his fragile Socialist ... |
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| 06/21/11 - A Planned Depression?
IMF Warns of Greater Downside Risks to Global Economy ... The global economic recovery has slowed and downside risks have grown, amid weakness in the U.S. economy and fears ... |
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| 06/20/11 - Afghan Desperation of IMF Elites
How the IMF might save Afghanistan from its leaders ... The International Monetary Fund used to be hated, blamed for the privatisation programmes it imposed across the world in ... |
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| 06/06/11 - Government Anti-Corruption Meme
After Raid, Yoga Guru's Protest Becomes Firestorm … Early Sunday, police officers removed a supporter from the site where Swami Ramdev (left) was holding a hunger strike ... |
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| 06/01/11 - Yemen the Key to Middle East Uprisings?
Foreign Office urges Britons to leave Yemen while they can ... Anyone with British relatives or friends in strife-torn Yemen is being urged to contact them and plead with them ... |
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| 05/30/11 - IMF Memes Roll On
Why Christine Lagarde should never be head of the IMF ... Christine Lagarde is in poll position. Having put her name forward last week, the silver-haired French finance ... |
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| 05/23/11 - Perfecting the IMF
The IMF cannot afford to make a mistake with Strauss-Kahn's successor The IMF will soon be confronted with the difficult decision of choosing a new head. If these were ordinary ... |
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| 05/13/11 - IMF Suggests Greece Sell the Parthenon?
IMF Optimistic on Greece ... Greece currently looks poised to avoid a restructuring of its debt, although Europe's fiscal crises could yet spread to other parts of the euro ... |
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| 04/26/11 - IMF Taps China as #1 Power, Roubini Disagrees
IMF bombshell: Age of America nears end . . . The International Monetary Fund has just dropped a bombshell, and nobody noticed. For the first time, the international ... |
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| 04/05/11 - EU's Unraveling Preps Global Currency?
The risk is roughly one in seven that Europe's ongoing debt crisis will push member nations to abandon the shared currency, raising the spectre of the "effective end ... |
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| 03/11/11 - Why Not a Global Currency?
Special drawing rights issued by the International Monetary Fund could be used as an international reserve currency, Hu Xiaolian, vice-governor of the People's Bank of ... |
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| 02/27/11 - John Perkins on His Best-Selling Book 'Confessions of an Economic Hit Man' and the Unsustainability of Modern Capitalism
The Daily Bell is pleased to present an exclusive interview with John Perkins (left). Introduction: As Chief Economist at a major international consulting firm, John Perkins ... |
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| 06/19/10 - Russia Kicks Dollar Dominance
Medvedev Pushes Ruble Reserve Currency to Cut Dollar Dominance ... Russia wants the ruble to be one of the world's reserve currencies as President Dmitry Medvedev (left) renews ... |
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| 03/24/09 - China Wants IMF to Manage New One-World Reserve Currency
China's central bank on Monday proposed replacing the US dollar as the international reserve currency with a new global system controlled by the International Monetary Fund. In ... |
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| 02/05/09 - Russia Takes the 'Monetary' Road Less Travelled
Russia signaled a change in its policies to fight the financial crisis on Wednesday, indicating that it would switch from bailing out individual companies to supporting the ... |
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