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Read_687 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 5 [Alex Gladstein]
"Research from Mexico — a typical country in terms of consistent involvement historically from the Bank and Fund — shows that for every 2% decrease in GDP, the mortality rate increased by 1%. Now cons...
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Read_686 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 4 [Alex Gladstein]
"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 “Lent And Lost,” a straightforward Ponzi schem...
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Read_685 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 3 [Alex Gladstein]
"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 Hammurabi in ancient Babylon, of forgiving interest a...
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Read_684 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 2 [Alex Gladstein]
"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 and investment. But that same year, more than $3.3 tril...
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Read_683 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 1 [Alex Gladstein]
"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 historic increase. Countries like Jamaica, Greece and Cyprus have bor...
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Guy's Take #61 - Blockchains, A Square Peg for Round Holes
There are about a million claims out there as to what blockchains are going to fix, and how NFTs are going to be used to unlock your house, and how DAOs will be used to enforce and decide laws, but wh...
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Read_682 - Data Shows That Lightning Solves Scaling [Kozlovski]
"A data-driven exploration proving that Lightning scales bitcoin payments beyond Visa and that second-layer innovation is the way." - Stanislov Kozlovski Check out the original article at: https://bit...
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Read_681 - The Twitter Files - Part 1 [Matt Taibbi]
“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 that wasn’t going to hold. But no one h...
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