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Unfortunately, the sad reality is that, thanks above all to Trump and his closest associates, the specter of Hitler is once ...
Countries with high debt payments all hit with tariffs No benefit from falling price of dollar Borrowing costs increasing ...
To avoid the risk of a cascade of defaults that followed the debt crisis from 2020-2022 (see part 2), what was the reaction of governments and international institutions such as the IMF ? Faced ...
U.S. President Donald Trump announced the ‘Liberation Day' tariffs, imposing trade measures on partners across the globe. The ...
The overall impact of Trump's tariff hikes is to raise the average tariff rate on US goods imports to 26%, the highest level ...
In this interview, Eric Toussaint and Balasingham Skanthakumar explains the consequences of the IMF “bailout” of Sri Lanka and the impact of IMF conditionalities on the Sri Lankan economy. He ...
[Editor’s note: Marxist scholar Adam Hanieh will be speaking at Ecosocialism 2025, September 5-7, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. For more information on the conference visit ecosocialism.org.au] Adam ...
International Monetary Fund Along with the World Bank, the IMF was founded on the day the Bretton Woods Agreements were signed. Its first mission was to support the new system of standard exchange ...
According to the doctrine, for a debt to be odious it must meet two conditions: 1) It must have been contracted against the interests of the Nation, or against the interests of the People, or against ...