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When is a recession not a recession?
When it is a "global" recession, as defined by the International Monetary Fund
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.
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!
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.
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?
Argentina's tango with globalization
President Nestor Kirchner: "No one is known to have succeeded in getting their money back from the dead."
Smash the Consensus!
Anti-globalizationists are trying to stop the tide. Here's a better target.
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.
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.
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.
Keeping an eye on protesters
International authorities are sharing information -- not all of it accurate -- about anti-globalization activists.
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.
Globalization and its discontents
Salon's coverage of world trade talks, the rising protests and their political legacy.
Silencing Joseph Stiglitz
The World Bank cuts its ties to the economist who became an unlikely hero to world trade protesters.
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.
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.
Letters to the editor
The global impact of the D.C. protests Plus: Are Benetton death penalty ads art? Should organs be for sale?
Labor meets the granola crunchers
"These are very beautiful, idealistic kids," says United Steelworkers boss George Becker.
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.
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.
Prepping for the protests
Washington's mayor and police force get ready to rumble, though they hope they won't have to.
Not just a Seattle sequel
The protests surrounding this weekend's meetings of the IMF and World Bank are the next step in the backlash to globalization.
D.C. cops plow through crowds, reporters
This is an ongoing notebook of events as police and protesters square off.
Decaffeinated protests
Would-be anti-corporate crusaders encounter the unexpected as they take on Starbucks, Gap and the Washington police.
World Bank and IMF: Good, evil or irrelevant?
On the eve of the A16 protests, experts discuss the roles of the international financial organizations and the Seattle protests in this weekend's battle over globalization.
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