"Why poor countries cant escape their debts"
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A new Brady debt plan has already failed
“I’ve got a house that’s a show place/still I cant get no place with you”
How does the World Bank propose to rebuild Venezuela ?
“Whirl is king” — McGuane
Some MAGAts dont need to be paid
Seventeen months ago, I argued [1] that the Trump regime would let tariffs, spending cuts, and changes in institutions, regulations, and laws, as planned under Project 2025, fall wherever they happened.
What do the IMF and the World Bank owe Venezuela ?
John McIntire
Always be closing
On the false philanthropy of the AI barons
Facing reality on the debts of poor countries
Don’t say I never warned you
The Board of Peace is not the only problem at the World Bank
I thought that Mieko Nishimizu had retired the lifetime award for “highest ratio of vapid ambition to genuine accomplishment in an international organization” but she must accept second place (for now; this is a race in which the competition will always be fierce).
A brief economics quiz
The featured speakers for the World Bank’s 2026 Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) are like a quiz for third-graders … “Which of the four is not like the other ?”
A readership of one
How will this play down the street ?