When Fat Cats Meet In Munich: Welcoming the International Monetary Conference

This last installment in a series looks at what the IMC has done, ahead of this weekend's conference, to maintain power among the world's most influential bodies controlling economic, financial and monetary affairs.

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Austerity Revisited: How Global Financiers Rigged the Bank Bailouts of the 1980s

Top financiers at the International Monetary Conference engineered so-called "aid packages" for crisis-hit developing nations that were, much like today, nothing more than bailouts for the big banks.

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How the International Monetary Conference Helped Fuel the 1980s Debt Crisis

Two years before the 1982 debt crisis erupted, the world’s top bankers met secretly in New Orleans and warned that a “safety net” may be needed to bail out the major banks which lent money to the developing world.

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It's Time to Expose Global Banking Elites at the International Monetary Conference

This four-part Global Power Project series takes on the secretive meeting of global financiers happening in June at the International Monetary Conference in Munich.

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Global Power Project: The Group of Thirty, Financial Crisis Kingpins

"I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that," wrote Lawrence Summers while serving as Chief Economist at the World Bank. He is now in the G30.

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Global Power Project: The Group of Thirty, Architects of Austerity

From Jean-Claude Trichet and Mario Draghi to Jaime Caruana and Kenneth Rogoff, proponents of austerity politics run in some of the world's elite circles where they have pushed illogical and unsuccessful economics to its inevitable conclusion.

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Global Power Project: The Group of Thirty and Its Methods of Financial Governance

What makes the G30 so important is not only that they are taken seriously by policymakers and market "participants" – but that the very individuals making the recommendations are in positions of power to directly implement or support those recommendations.

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Global Power Project: The Group of Thirty and the "Good Discussion" They're Still Having

Emerging from the Rockefeller Foundation in the late 1970s, the Group of Thirty was designed as a think tank, lobby/industry group and, ultimately, a consensus-building institution for the global elites – to ensure that they stayed that way.

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World of Resistance (WOR) Report, Part 1: The Global Awakening

Institutional and imperial power structures have never been more globalized or concentrated in human history; yet, simultaneously, never have they been under more threat from an awakened humanity. Zbigniew Brzezinski says there's no going back.

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Global Power Project: Central Bankers and the Institute of International Finance, Part 3

The relationship between the powerfully connected Institute of International Finance and global central bankers goes well beyond the timid attempts at “regulation” on the part of global banks, as this third segment in the IFF series reveals.

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