Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has described the measures taken by the EU to settle the economic crisis in Greece as a “terrible job.” The comment comes as Greece agrees to new reforms that are set to help the country qualify for cheaper loans. “Isn’t it yet another piece of evidence that the European […]
IMF’s Lagarde Urges Wealth Redistribution To Fight Populism…
As we scoffed oveernight, who better than a handful of semi, and not so semi, billionaires – perplexed by the populist backlash of the past year – to sit down and discuss among each other how a “squeezed and Angry” middle-class should be fixed…
My Political-Financial Road Map for 2017 by Nomi Prins…
The central bank subsidization of the financial system (especially in the US and Europe) that began with the Fed invoking zero interest rate policy in 2008, gave way to international distrust of the enabling status quo that unfolded in different ways across the planet. My prognosis is for more destabilization, financially and politically. In other […]
India Overtakes Britain as the World’s Sixth-Largest Economy…
Score one for the post-colonial underdog. India’s economy has reportedly overtaken the United Kingdom’s for the first time in over 100 years, now standing as the world’s sixth-largest economy by GDP after the United States, China, Japan, Germany, and France. The milestone is a symbol of India’s rapid economic growth and…
IMF Doubles Down on Lagarde as Trump Aims to Upend World Order…
The International Monetary Fund’s executive board caught a glimpse this week of what life might be like in the wilderness of a rapidly shifting world order. It didn’t take them long to slam the door…
Even After Being Found Guilty, IMF Board Expresses “Full Support” In Christine Lagarde…
Despite Christine Lagarde’s conviction earlier on Monday for failing to overturn a 285-million euro payout to a businessman in an arbitration case while she was France’s finance minister nearly a decade ago…the Executive Board of the IMF decided that her transgression was not too extensive, and reaffirmed its full confidence…
French Court Convicts IMF Chief Christine Lagarde…Leaves France Before Trial Verdict…
IMF chief Christine Lagarde has been found guilty of negligence by a French court, but she was not handed a sentence. She was on trial over a payout to a tycoon made by the French Finance Ministry…
New Zealand’s Outgoing PM Ideal Candidate to Head International Monetary Fund…
Outgoing Prime Minister John Key has been tipped as a potential candidate to head the International Monetary Fund, an appointment signed off by US President Barack Obama…Lagarde, current IMF Dir, has been ordered to stand trial in France over what became known as the Tapie Affair…
Donald Trump Is Inheriting the Best Economy in a Generation(???) Bubbles, Worst Wage Recovery Since 1965, etc.
(Mis)Fortune magazine had a story which I actually mistook for a story from The Onion or National Lampoon. But sadly, it was a real story: “Donald Trump Is Inheriting the Best Economy in a Generation.” Let’s look carefully at the “best economy in a generation”…
Crisis at the Federal Reserve. The End of the Washington Consensus? Nomi Prins on GRTV…
Nomi Prins talks about the changing economic and monetary landscape and how the locus of central bank power is shifting to the East, with players like the People’s Bank of China gaining in prominence and former US/EU lapdogs like the IMF becoming brokers for these new power players in the new world financial order…
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