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BTC129: How the IMF and World Bank Sell Exploitation As Development w/ Alex Gladstein (Bitcoin Podcast)

We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network

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The Importance of Understanding the IMF's Root Cause

Do you think a lot of the key leaders in the global South understand your thesis whole heartedly? Or do they view it more as just something that is different than this source, that's the root cause? I mean, look, I think anyone who's lived in a country that's been structurally adjusted like 10, 15, 20 times as you might have in a place like Argentina or Ghana, Pakistan. They intuitively know that the IMF is a malicious force. It doesn't matter what profession or age or field they're in. The problem is there's a lot of opportunism and even leaders like Lula, for example, in Brazil who've been very critical of the debt

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