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By purchasing $50 billion of new IMF bonds, the People's Republic is backing up talk with action
By Andrew Leonard
September 3, 2009
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How do you convince other countries to follow your economic lead after leading the world down the garden path to a global recession?
By Andrew Leonard
April 1, 2009
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The left cheers as a former IMF chief economist preaches "structural adjustments" for the U.S. But didn't "the Washington Consensus" help get the world into its current mess?
By Andrew Leonard
March 31, 2009
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The Minnesota congresswoman introduces legislation to protect the greenback from the new world order meddling of Tim Geithner, the Benedict Arnold of treasury secretaries.
By Andrew Leonard
March 26, 2009
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Next up on the global economy catastrophe hit-list: Emerging economies. Let's be fair: They need a bailout, too
By Andrew Leonard
October 27, 2008
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When it is a "global" recession, as defined by the International Monetary Fund
By Andrew Leonard
April 14, 2008
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A slight chance of global recession is in the forecast, and the dreaded phrase "since the Great Depression" pops up again.
By Andrew Leonard
April 10, 2008
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A report from the International Monetary Fund acknowledges that the system could be tweaked to work better. But don't go too far!
By Andrew Leonard
September 24, 2007
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State tax revenues are dropping because of the housing bust, but the IMF says the rest of the world hasn't caught the American flu -- yet.
By Andrew Leonard
April 9, 2007
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Former Sandinista revolutionary Ortega is back on top in Nicaragua. Will his alliance with Venezuela -- complete with subsidized oil -- be a model for the rest of Central America?
By Lydia Chávez
February 8, 2007
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President Nestor Kirchner: "No one is known to have succeeded in getting their money back from the dead."
By Andrew Leonard
December 13, 2006
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Anti-globalizationists are trying to stop the tide. Here's a better target.
By Andrew Leonard
January 6, 2006
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The Bush administration is lavishing billions of dollars on potential allies at the U.N. Strangely, it isn't working.
By Laura McClure
March 12, 2003
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Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz talks about the corporate looting spree and Bush's woeful mismanagement of the economy.
By Damien Cave
July 3, 2002
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The winner of the 2001 Nobel prize in economics talks with Damien Cave about his book "Globalization and Its Discontents," the WorldCom scandal, the mistakes of the IMF and more.
July 3, 2002
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International authorities are sharing information -- not all of it accurate -- about anti-globalization activists.
By Sarah Ferguson
September 29, 2000
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The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank hold their annual meeting in the Czech Republic -- a country that exemplifies growing European inequality.
By Bruce Shapiro
September 27, 2000
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Salon's coverage of world trade talks, the rising protests and their political legacy.
May 2, 2000
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The World Bank cuts its ties to the economist who became an unlikely hero to world trade protesters.
By David Moberg
May 2, 2000
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Enough is enough! Lazaro's a strutting bullyboy, Marisleysis is a
hysterical narcissist; Ralph Nader may get my vote; and Phyllis Diller vs.
Gloria Steinem.
By Camille Paglia
April 26, 2000
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While I'm planning security for the IMF demonstrations, my husband is getting thrown in jail. He better not ask me for bail.
By Lisa Guide
April 24, 2000
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The global impact of the D.C. protests Plus: Are Benetton death penalty ads art? Should organs be for sale?
April 20, 2000
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"These are very beautiful, idealistic kids," says United Steelworkers boss George Becker.
By Daryl Lindsey
April 18, 2000
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Our experts debate the role of globalism's de facto government against the backdrop of protests in Washington.
By Daryl Lindsey
April 18, 2000
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Let's hope the tactics that have rocked free-traders can also change the hearts and minds of SUV-driving, overconsuming Americans.
By Bill McKibben
April 17, 2000