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Risky Lenders Did More Aggressive Lobbying: IMF Report

Posted 12.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Lobbying, Lending, International Monetary Fund, Risky Lending, Financial Crisis, Imf, Systemic Risk, Barry Ritholtz, Business News

Over the last few few decades, financial lobbying yielded an incredible return on investment for Wall Street -- albeit, in the form of taxpayer bailou...

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A Clear Agenda for Reform in 2010

Gordon Brown | Posted 12.23.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, World Economy, International Institutions, Copenhagen 2009, Globalization, Banking Crisis, Climate Change, Imf, Un, Copenhagen, World News
Gordon Brown

As the balance of economic power changes over the next two decades, new and stronger power-brokers may be less willing to embrace change. We must avoid this race to the bottom. Here is how.

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Greece Evidences the Weaknesses of the Euro

Georges Ugeux | Posted 12.16.2009 | World

Read More: Eurozone, Bankruptcy, Public Debt, European Union, European Central Bank, Euro, Fitch Ratings, Maastricht Treaty, Jean-Claude Trichet, Angela Merkel, President Sarkozy, Financial Crisis, Imf, Greece, Eurostat, World News
Georges Ugeux

Greece is, once again, on the verge of bankruptcy and, once again, is asking its European partners for help.

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Obama's Nobel Lecture: Speaking Truth From Power?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Kabul, Obama's Nobel Lecture, Karl Rove, President Hamid Karzai, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, International Monetary Fund, Afghan War, President Barack Obama, United Nations, Nobel Committee, Afghan Security Forces, Obama's Nobel Speech, Desertion Rate of Afghan Security Forces, Imf, Afghan Occupation, Nobel Peace Prize, Soviet Union, Cold War, Vietnam, Vietnam War, United States Foreign Policy, Oslo Norway, Afghanistan, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Obama's Nobel lecture might have showed us that the US has reached a turning point: either the national security monster we've created is going to eat us alive by bankrupting the country or we're going to have to shift course.

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EU, IMF Revolt: Greece, Iceland, Latvia May Lead the Way

Ellen Brown | Posted 12.17.2009 | World

Read More: Argentina Economy, Turkey, European Union, Latvia, Imf, Iceland Bank Crisis, World News
Ellen Brown

Total financial collapse, once a problem only for developing countries, has now come to Europe. The International Monetary Fund is imposing its "austerity measures" on the outer circle of the European Union.

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IMF Exec: Another Bailout would 'threaten democracy'

Times Online | Angela Jameson and Elizabeth Judge | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Dominque Strauss-Kahn, Bailout, Troubled Asset Relief Program, International Monetary Fund, Main Street, Imf, Financial Crisis, Tarp, Bailout Threatens Democracy, Business News

Dominique Strauss-Kahn told the CBI annual conference of business leaders that another huge call on public finances by the financial services sector w...

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ReThink Interview: Philippe Diaz (part 1) -- The End of Poverty? and How It Started

Jonathan Kim | Posted 12.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Starvation, Debt, The End of Poverty?, Colonialism, The World Bank, Poverty, Slavery, Sustainability, Rethink Reviews, Philippe Diaz, Documentary, Imf, Capitalism, Jonathan Kim, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

What causes global poverty? Why do the countries of the northern hemisphere enjoy so much wealth while over a billion people in the southern hemispher...

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The IMF and Our Increased Dependence on Faux-Experts

Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Imf, Takatoshi Kato, Business News
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We need to build a society robust to charlatanism and expert-error, one in which Takatoshi Kato and his staff can be as incompetent as they want without endangering the general public.

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Interview with Michael Hudson Who Advises Latvia To Default on Their Loans to Sweden

Max Keiser | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Imf, Latvia, Michael Hudson, World Bank, Sweden, Dr.Michael Hudson, Business News
Max Keiser

Latvia should not pay back its loans to Sweden says renowned economist Dr. Michael Hudson. I interviewed him after reading his piece; The Specter o...

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Financial Reform: Political Will For Change May Be Disappearing

ft.com | Norma Cohen | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Alistair Darling, Financial Reform, Economy, Tim Geithner, Banking Regulation, Imf, g20, Financial Regulation, Business News

As the world's banking system teetered on the brink of collapse just about a year ago, there were widespread, heartfelt, calls for reform. Politici...

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Financial Crisis: Four Take Aways from Istanbul

Barry D. Wood | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Stanley Fischer, Istanbul, Imf, Global Economy, Nouriel Roubini, g20, Financial Crisis, Business News
Barry D. Wood

Four broad messages emerged last week from the annual gathering in Istanbul of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, including that the worst of the financial crisis is behind us.

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G-7 To Meet, Talk Less As G-20 Ascends: Officials

Bloomberg | By Rainer Buergin and Simon Kennedy | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Uk, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, Imf, United States, Canada, G7, G-20, Pittsburgh, Global Policy, Japan, France, G-7, g20, Global Economic Policy, Us, Un, Economy, Business News

Group of Seven finance chiefs said they will meet less and issue fewer statements as the G-20 becomes the main arena for setting global economic polic...

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Turkey Debates Merits Of IMF Loan; Afraid Of Foreign Pressure

GlobalPost | Posted 12.02.2009 | World

Read More: International Monetary Fund, Turkey Unemployment, Turkey, International-Monetary-Fund, Imf, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, IMF Turkey, Turkey IMF Loan, IMF Loan Turkey, World News

By Nichole Sobecki ISTANBUL, Turkey -- At the start of the financial crisis, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan seemed confident that the troubles...

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The IMF Catapults From Shunned Agency to Global Central Bank

Ellen Brown | Posted 12.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Interest Rates, Stimulus Package, g20 Pittsburgh, Federal Reserve, US Dollar, Credit Crisis, Imf, Third World Debt, World's Reserve Currency, Sdrs, Business News
Ellen Brown

The U.S. can settle its debts and get its own house in order, but that would cause world trade to contract. A substitute global reserve currency is needed to fuel the global economy while the U.S. solves its debt problems.

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A Surprisingly Successful G-20 Summit

Georges Ugeux | Posted 12.01.2009 | World

Read More: Emerging Nations, G-20 Summit, Financial Services, Bank of International Settlements, Voting Rights, President Barack Obama, G-8, Global Governance, G-7, Financial Crisis, Imf, Pittsburgh, Bonuses, Board for Financial Stability, World Bank, Istanbul, World News
Georges Ugeux

This year, President Obama drove a very different agenda -- one focused on discussing how the world can form global governance and cooperate to stimulate the ailing economies.

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn, IMF Director, Latest Shoe Attack Survivor In Turkey

AP | CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 12.01.2009 | World

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ISTANBUL — A student journalist threw a shoe at IMF Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Thursday and ran toward the stage shouting "IMF get out!"...

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The G20 Summit: Hijacked by Neo-Liberalism

Marshall Auerback | Posted 11.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Monetary Policy, Imf, Obama, Surplus, Deficits, Neo-Liberalism, g20, Business News
Marshall Auerback

Government deficits are not an aberration; they are the norm. Our first (and possibly greatest) Treasury Secretary, Alexander Hamilton, called the national debt a "national blessing."

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G-20 Doesn't Offer Much Reform

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 11.29.2009 | World

Read More: Imf, G20 Summit, Wto, Obama g20, g20, World Bank, Gordon Brown, World News
Mark Weisbrot

The expansion from the G-8 to the G-20 is mostly a symbolic move. Since the rich countries control the institutions with actual power, the G-20 is still mainly the G-7 with the other 13 countries sitting in.

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"Happy" Anniversary, Iceland

Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 11.28.2009 | World

Read More: IMF Funding, International Monetary Fund, Economic Crisis, Iceland Economic Crisis, Norway, Alcoa, Iceland Global Economic Crisis, Iceland Economy Collapse, Iceland, Denmark, Iceland Bankrupt, Iceland Banks, Iceland Economy, Lehman Brothers, Iceland National Bankruptcy, IMF Bailout, Financial Crisis, Western Europe, Imf, Iceland Financial Crisis, Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, World War II, Iceland Bank Crisis, Monty Python, World News
Iris Erlingsdottir

This has been a very rough year for Iceland, and it's not likely to get better anytime soon. The public's anger continues to grow, and it would not be surprising if this winter sees a repeat of last winter's uprising.

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The G20: Rebooting the System

Ann Pettifor | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank Governors, Financial Architecture, G-20 Pittsburgh, Economic Crash, G-20 Summit, Stimulus, G-20, Imf, Business News
Ann Pettifor

To help the poor of the world, the G-20 shuffled the deckchairs on the board of the IMF. No doubt this will cheer up those families in drought-stricken Kenya whose babies were snatched by starving hyenas.

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IMF Gives $164 Million to Coup Government in Honduras, Following Familiar Pattern

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

Read More: Honduras Coup, Honduras, US Foreign Policy, Imf, Barack Obama, Manuel Zelaya, IMF Funding, World News
Mark Weisbrot

Supporters argue that the IMF has changed. But after depositing a large amount of money in Honduras -- the site of a recent coup -- it's looking more and more like the same old IMF on steroids.

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One Year of the Zardari Presidency

Farahnaz Ispahani | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

Read More: Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan, Yusuf Raza Gilani, Ppp, Benazir Bhutto, Bhutto Pakistan, Afghanistan, Quaid-I-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Benazir Bhutto Assassinated, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Imf, Democracy, Benazir Bhutto Killed, World News
Farahnaz Ispahani

A year after the election of Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan's march toward democracy continues, and the decision to elect President Zardari is proving to have been the correct one.

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This Film is an Idiot's Version of Naomi Klein's Masterpiece

Johann Hari | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Chile, Debt, Depression, Salvador Allende, Naomi Klein, Mixed Economies, Apartheid, Conservatism, Michale Winterbottom, Capitalism, Pinochet, Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine, Communism, Freedom Charter, Channel 4, Margaret Thatcher, Anc, Shock Doctrine, Cia, World Bank, Tianamen, Imf, Milton Friedman, Soviet Union, World News
Johann Hari

Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine is one of the most important political books of the past decade. But Michael Winterbottom's "adaptation" for film is garbled and mumbled to the point of meaninglessness.

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The IMF Destroys Iceland and Latvia

Nathan Lewis | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Imf, Latvia, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, Iceland, Imf Iceland, International Monetary Fund, Imf Latvia, World News
Nathan Lewis

It's not about "conservative" and "liberal." It's about us against the banker imperialists. The IMF should be abolished.

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China's Dollar Scam Must End

Diane Francis | Posted 08.29.2009 | World

Read More: Walmart, Currency Manipulation, Clinton, Trade, Dollar, Secretary of Treasury, Imf, Market Manipulation, Obama, Japan, Weak Dollar, China, China-Currency-Manipulation, China Currency, World News
Diane Francis

The bilateral talks, or G-2, between the U.S. and China have resulted in little substantive progress. This is because there is a continuing, inexplicable failure on the part of the U.S. with other countries to pressure China to curb its currency manipulation.

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