Did IMF Austerity Worsen W African Ebola Outbreaks?

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Poor IMF: among the many ills supposedly attributable to its activities worldwide, chalk its historical emphasis on "structural adjust... Continue reading →

Got $50B? IMF's Ukraine Money Pit & Franklin Templeton

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There's "postwar reconstruction," but the IMF has completely lost the plot with "duringwar reconstruction." I am uns... Continue reading →

G-77, Vulture Funds and a Default Workout Mechanism

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Vulture Man: NML Capital's Paul Singer v. Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez. File this under: dream on, buddy . A few weeks ago ... Continue reading →

Unpaid Advert: IMF's Lagarde Plugs IPE

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Christine Lagarde is famously the first non-economist to head the International Monetary Fund. Aside from being in charge during a time of t... Continue reading →

Zimbabwe Blues: Comrade Bob Mugabe, IMF & PRC

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For those who've run their country into the ground, we salute you. If nothing else, you have to admire President Robert Mugabe's lon... Continue reading →

IMF Conditionalities Don't Matter...If You're 'Ukraine'

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 If we go by the Weberian definition of what a state is, "Ukraine" fails on the counts of territorial integrity and having a mono... Continue reading →

Sisi's No Sissy: Ending Egypt's Unsustainable Subsidies

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His sartorial choices may have been Oppa Moammar Style, but Sisi has made a good start. For the record, let us recall how Egyptian President... Continue reading →

New World Order? BRICS "New Development Bank"

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We've heard all that before, unfortunately, BRICS. Grand plans to supplant the (American-designed) postwar global financial architecture... Continue reading →

How Big is "Too Big to Fail," Exactly?

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Like any other international organization, the IMF portrays itself as a technocratic institution instead of a political one. In other words,... Continue reading →

IMF's Bad Guys: Quota Reform Without the USA

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As any number of blog posts in the IPE Zone will attest, there is no finer pantomime villain than the United States [ insert your favorite v... Continue reading →

IMF Bails Out Ukraine...and Franklin Templeton?

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With some foreign currency savings in the bank, I have been in the market for a better return than a time deposit. I was thus offered some m... Continue reading →

IMF Masochism: Another Ukraine Rescue Package

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Ho-hum, here we go again: Ukraine has inked yet another deal with the IMF as one of the IFI's most hard-up of repeat customers. In a pre... Continue reading →

Bailout Fatigue: Republicans, Ukraine and IMF Funding

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During the European financial crisis, the term " bailout fatigue " was coined to mean Germans getting tired of bailing out undisci... Continue reading →

The Semi-Unfixables: Cyprus, Tunisia

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Oh, the western world's woes: it has now taken on the incredible financial basket case that is Ukraine while not exactly "fixing... Continue reading →

What's Worse, Russian Ruble or Ukranian Hryvnia?

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As you can see, it's Ukraine by a country mile which is worse off, but that's not saying much for Russia's economic prospects. I... Continue reading →

If I Were the West, I'd Let Russia 'Have' Ukraine

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Gazprom-sponsored German star offers opinion on an EU rescue of Ukraine? Ukraine is a poisoned chalice insofar as it resembles Russia: corru... Continue reading →

After Ukraine: Argentine, Venezuelan or Thai Gov't Falls?

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Business as usual in downtown Caracas Which shaky government will fall next? That is the question. The honest truth is that Ukraine's ec... Continue reading →