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Alex Gladstein: How Poor Countries Prop Up Rich Countries

Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell

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Are You Building the Future You Want to See?

Alex Castellanos: I think a lot of people, especially when you pile on numbers of these organizations and the WEF and the IMF, everyone thinks what they're doing is right. But yeah, the reality is like the INF and World Bank officials make very handsome salaries. They do really well for themselves. And it's not necessarily that they want to live in a liberal democracy. It's because they're starving and they have no opportunity. When you squeeze an economy, what happens? People are going to come out.

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