Kristalina Georgieva Takes IMF Helm (tags)
The International Monetary Fund announces that World Bank CEO and Bulgarian environmental economist, Kristalina Georgieva, will become the Fund's new Managing Director.
IMF and World Bank Meetings Begin With Growth Forecasts and Crisis Risk Warnings (tags)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank begin their annual meetings which run between October 13th and 15th.
Caribbean Bishops and Development Groups Urge Debt Relief for Irma-Struck Islands (tags)
On behalf of Caribbean Catholic Bishops, Bishop Gabriel Malzaire called for islands dealing with Hurricane Irma to receive debt relief.
UN Forum Focuses on Financing for Development Goals (tags)
United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and the IMF's Christine Lagarde join world leaders for the Financing for Development (FfD) Forum at UN Headquarters.
Western Long Knives Out for FIFA's Sepp Blatter? (tags)
FIFA
Governments Negotiate UN Agreement on Global Development (tags)
The United Nations, International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and finance ministries are meeting in New York to finalize an agreement for the Financing for Development Conference (FfD) to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in July
Kiev Rejects Minsk Mandated Donbass Self-Rule (tags)
Ukraine
America's Interventionist Legacy (tags)
anti-war
Sacking NYT Executive Editor Jill Abramson (tags)
NYT
Plundering Ukraine for Profit (tags)
Ukraine
Netanyahu and Rohani in Davos (tags)
anti-war
Supreme Court Considers Taking Hedge Fund/Argentina Case with Global Poverty Impacts (tags)
The US Supreme Court is considering whether or not to accept an international debt case that will impact global poverty and poor country access to credit.
Depositor Haircuts: The New Normal (tags)
class war
Cyprus Postmortems: Part II (tags)
class war
New York Times Supports Austerity Harshness (tags)
class wa
class war
Readying the Greek Corpse for Burial (tags)
class war
Sensationalism in America's Media (tags)
media
Meaner Tougher IMF with Lagarde (tags)
financial terrorism
The Rebirth of Economic Thought from the Ashes of the Crisis (tags)
Reagan announced the state was "the problem" for the functioning of the economy. State action could not solve economic problems. The latest reality of economic crisis thoroughly destroyed the neoclassical theses. The crisis showed its ideological limitation and conditionality.
The US Healthcare Sham and the Scandinavian Model (tags)
The reforms that Barack Obama is proposing will not change the US' abysmal healthcare system because those who profit from it have been able to buy protection from the lawmakers.. The Golden Age of the welfare state began after the Second World War.