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  • The IMF and World Bank: Seventy-Five Years of Debt Colonialism Masquerading as Development

    The IMF and World Bank: Seventy-Five Years of Debt Colonialism Masquerading as Development

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    Since their creation at Bretton Woods in 1944, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have positioned themselves as guardians of global stability and engines of development. In reality, their legacy tells a far darker story—one of debt dependency, failed infrastructure promises, and a financial architecture that has quietly enslaved much of the…

  • IMF Global Economy Confidence Forecast 2025

    IMF Global Economy Confidence Forecast 2025

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    The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) recent blog post, “The Global Economy Enters a New Era,” highlights a significant shift in the global economic landscape, driven by escalating trade tensions and policy uncertainties. This transformation has profound implications for offshore investors seeking to navigate the evolving financial terrain. (IMF Blogs) A New Economic Paradigm The IMF…

  • Private Placement Trading: A Deep Dive into Its Evolution, Sovereign Trade Desks, and the Seven Major Platforms

    Private Placement Trading: A Deep Dive into Its Evolution, Sovereign Trade Desks, and the Seven Major Platforms

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    The Beginning: Bretton Woods and the Foundations of Private Placement Trading Private Placement Trading, often referred to as Private Placement Programs (PPP), has its origins in the post-World War II monetary restructuring efforts that led to the establishment of the Bretton Woods system in 1944. The agreement sought to stabilize global currencies, peg them to…

  • Open Letter to Canada by Jason Lavigne on X

    Open Letter to Canada by Jason Lavigne on X

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    Canada, The World Economic Forum (WEF) is very real, and they and their “friends” are responsible for the “culture of woke” and the decline of Canada. In the report (below), issued in April 2016, the WEF set a clear strategy to reshape global governance, finance, workforce development, and energy policies. As a major participant in…

  • Global investment flowing through tax havens grows by $700bn

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    The portion of global investment flowing through tax havens has risen by $700bn in two years, according to an analysis by ActionAid. The NGOs evaluation of data from the International Monetary Fund evidences a 5% increase in investment moving through tax havens between 2013 and 2015, from $11.8tn to $12.5tn. ActionAid said this growth was…

  • US Gold Market Infographic

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    The US Gold Market is best known as the home of gold futures trading on the COMEX in New York. The COMEX has a literal monopoly on gold futures trading volumes worldwide, but very little physical gold is actually exchanged between COMEX trading participants, and gold inventories maintained in COMEX vaults in New York are…

  • International Monetary Fund Told to Sell Gold

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    St. LOUIS (ResourceInvestor.com) — An esteemed group of eminent persons, including former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and current President of the European Central Bank Claude Trichet, has recommended that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) sell up to 400 tonnes of gold as means to finance ongoing costs. In a report submitted to the IMF Executive…