“If your money requires permission to be spent, it is not your money. If your money has counterparty risk, it is not money—but credit. If

“So they fire out digital chaff frantically in every direction, they play whack-a-mole with high-engagement nodes that are or could be threats. The enemy is

“Research from Mexico — a typical country in terms of consistent involvement historically from the Bank and Fund — shows that for every 2% decrease

“The “generosity” of the West enabled unaccountable leaders to plunge their nations into debt deeper than ever before. The system was, as Payer writes in

“Far from playing the role of good samaritan, the Fund does not even follow the timeless human tradition, established more than 4,000 years ago by

“To give an example of what this might look like in a given year, in 2012 developing countries received $1.3 trillion, including all income, aid

“A 2014 analysis showed that the IMF had attached, on average, 20 conditions to each loan it gave out in the previous two years, a

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“They just freelanced it,” is how one former employee characterized the decision. “Hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyone realized