Hurricane Irma-battered Barbuda will require an estimated $150 million in reconstruction and recovery, yet the IMF refuses to forgive, or even delay demand for payment on a $3 million loan.
“We had the role of a rubber stamp…” – a former board member of Greece’s national statistical authority has revealed that she and other members were forced to sign off on falsified deficit and debt figures that plunged their country into an ongoing economic depression.
ATHENS (Interview)-- On May 18, a new chapter was written in Greece’s economic odyssey, as the Greek parliament, with the votes of the SYRIZA and Independent Greeks coalition government, approved Greece’s fourth memorandum loan package since the onset of the country’s depression. The strings attached to this new deal with the “troika” of Greece’s
