# The Apricot Tree of Tangiers

Tropical agriculture, farming systems, distance running, international orgs

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## ["Why poor countries cant escape their debts"](https://johnmcintire.substack.com/p/why-poor-countries-cant-escape-their)

_2026-08-14 · John McIntire_

My latest, cross-posted from Impakter

## [A new Brady debt plan has already failed](https://johnmcintire.substack.com/p/a-new-brady-debt-plan-has-already)

_2026-08-10 · John McIntire_

“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 ?](https://johnmcintire.substack.com/p/how-does-the-world-bank-propose-to)

_2026-08-03 · John McIntire_

“Whirl is king” — McGuane

## [Some MAGAts dont need to be paid](https://johnmcintire.substack.com/p/some-magats-dont-need-to-be-paid)

_2026-07-27 · John McIntire_

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 ?](https://johnmcintire.substack.com/p/what-do-the-imf-and-the-world-bank-6d8)

_2026-07-07 · John McIntire_

John McIntire

## [Always be closing](https://johnmcintire.substack.com/p/always-be-closing)

_2026-06-22 · John McIntire_

On the false philanthropy of the AI barons

## [Facing reality on the debts of poor countries](https://johnmcintire.substack.com/p/facing-reality-on-the-debts-of-poor)

_2026-06-10 · John McIntire_

Don’t say I never warned you

## [The Board of Peace is not the only problem at the World Bank](https://johnmcintire.substack.com/p/the-board-of-peace-is-not-the-only)

_2026-05-28 · John McIntire_

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](https://johnmcintire.substack.com/p/a-brief-economics-quiz)

_2026-05-08 · John McIntire_

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 ?”

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## [A readership of one](https://johnmcintire.substack.com/p/a-readership-of-one)

_2026-04-22 · John McIntire_

How will this play down the street ?