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The European Central Bank’s Zimbabwean Model
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The European Central Bank’s Zimbabwean Model
September 19, 2022

As the Dutch farmers are showing, that is something worth opposing von der Leyen, Lagarde, Stoltenberg and Europe’s other Quislings and the perches they pontificate from.

ECB Raising Rates is Europe’s Last Chance to Avoid Ground Zero
July 21, 2022

The truth is, for the first time in a very long time, Davos is not calling the shots for the entire West. Italy’s government is gone because the populists were told they have US backing to end Draghi’s reign of terror.

ECB Raising Rates is Europe’s Last Chance to Avoid Ground Zero
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Lagarde Capitulates As the Euro-Zone Divides
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Lagarde Capitulates As the Euro-Zone Divides
June 15, 2022

I know you probably get tired of me saying this but the Euro-zone is headed for a massive crisis.  On Thursday, June 9th, the ECB came out with its policy statement, less than one week before the next FOMC meeting statement (June 14th).

Signs of Recession Are Hitting Europe – and Its New Central Bank President May Not Be up for the Challenge
August 6, 2019

…All of which tells us that something is indeed rotten in the state of Denmark (and elsewhere), as Lagarde takes over as president of the ECB…

Signs of Recession Are Hitting Europe – and Its New Central Bank President May Not Be up for the Challenge
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Christine Lagarde Takes the Stage for the Last Time?
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Christine Lagarde Takes the Stage for the Last Time?
December 30, 2015

In recent years, the work of the International Monetary Fund has become a never-ending drama, directed by Washington, which is also known as «the main shareholder of the joint-stock company» known as the IMF. All the other shareholders, as well as the fund’s staffers, are assigned the role of actors in a play written by Uncle Sam…

Ukraine’s Economy Would Have Collapsed Without Russian Aid – IMF Chief
April 4, 2014

Ukraine's ailing economy would have collapsed without Russia's financial help, the head of the International Monetary Fund said Wednesday. IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said that the Eastern European country's economy had hit a wall last year and was heading […]

Ukraine’s Economy Would Have Collapsed Without Russian Aid – IMF Chief
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Everyday Life of Superpower or What US Needs Syria for?
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Everyday Life of Superpower or What US Needs Syria for?
October 7, 2013

According to World Bank expert Eric Schwaitzern, a wave of city bankruptcies is expected to hit the United States in the next three years possibly triggering sovereign default. Today over 450 US cities are on the verge of going broke, including Los Angeles, San Diego and others. The «ghost city» Detroit started «the parade of defaults» that may be expedited in October to last all year long… Washington appears to get ready for emergency. Richard Preston, leader of the Confederate White Knights of KKK, called on Americans to get together in a civil war against Barack Obama and his supporters and do it in October, when the country marks the 150th anniversary of Gettysburg…

Christine Lagarde in Tokyo: Slip of the Tongue or Carefully Planned Announcement?
October 15, 2012

The Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group was held in Tokyo on October 12-13. The conventions tend to be fairly technical in character, but, due to at least a couple of reasons, the latest one was an exception from the rule. First, the speakers in Tokyo seemed to have shed their usual pretense of optimism… Secondly, serious concerns simply had to arise in connection with a certain cryptic passage in a contribution to the debate made by IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde. «Without growth, the future of the global economy is in jeopardy, and perhaps the greatest roadblock will be the huge legacy of public debt, which now averages 110% in advanced economies, pretty much wartime levels», said Lagarde. One is tempted to read the above as a warning that the epoch of peace is about to end and the world currently finds itself on the brink of a major war…

Christine Lagarde in Tokyo: Slip of the Tongue or Carefully Planned Announcement?
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