International Monetary Fund

  • China's long march against the dollar

    By purchasing $50 billion of new IMF bonds, the People's Republic is backing up talk with action
    By Andrew Leonard September 3, 2009

  • Obama's G-20 summit problem: U.S. credibility

    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

  • Simon Johnson's crusade against the oligarchs of Wall Street

    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

  • Michele Bachmann defends the holy dollar

    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

  • The return of the Third World

    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

  • When is a recession not a recession?

    When it is a "global" recession, as defined by the International Monetary Fund
    By Andrew Leonard April 14, 2008

  • The IMF gets gloomy-doomy

    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

  • A mixed message on subprime from the IMF

    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

  • The U.S. homeowner and the global economy

    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

  • Daniel Ortega's new best friend: Hugo Chavez

    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

  • Argentina's tango with globalization

    President Nestor Kirchner: "No one is known to have succeeded in getting their money back from the dead."
    By Andrew Leonard December 13, 2006

  • Smash the Consensus!

    Anti-globalizationists are trying to stop the tide. Here's a better target.
    By Andrew Leonard January 6, 2006

  • Coalition of the billing -- or unwilling?

    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

  • The new gilded age and its discontents

    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

  • Interview with Joseph Stiglitz

    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

  • Keeping an eye on protesters

    International authorities are sharing information -- not all of it accurate -- about anti-globalization activists.
    By Sarah Ferguson September 29, 2000

  • Prague dissent

    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

  • Globalization and its discontents

    Salon's coverage of world trade talks, the rising protests and their political legacy.
    May 2, 2000

  • Silencing Joseph Stiglitz

    The World Bank cuts its ties to the economist who became an unlikely hero to world trade protesters.
    By David Moberg May 2, 2000

  • Elian! Nature trumps politics

    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

  • Sleeping with the enemy

    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

  • Letters to the editor

    The global impact of the D.C. protests Plus: Are Benetton death penalty ads art? Should organs be for sale?
    April 20, 2000

  • Labor meets the granola crunchers

    "These are very beautiful, idealistic kids," says United Steelworkers boss George Becker.
    By Daryl Lindsey April 18, 2000

  • World Bank and IMF: The match continues

    Our experts debate the role of globalism's de facto government against the backdrop of protests in Washington.
    By Daryl Lindsey April 18, 2000

  • Three cheers for the brave new activism

    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
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