I found myself doing extraordinary things that arent in the textbooks. Then the IMF asked the U. S. to please print money. The whole world is now practicing what they have been saying I should not. I decided that God had been on my side and had come to vindicate me.
There were times when there were riots in Africa, demonstrations against the IMF because of the policy advice they were giving, the conditionalities they were imposing, and the difficulties that arose out of the implementation of those conditionalities.
Political uncertainty around the world has more than doubled since the election of Trump. To find anything comparable we have to go way back, to the late 1920s for example, the times of the Great Depression. Or think of the United Kingdom in the 1970s, when the International Monetary Fund had to help the country out with a dramatic rescue operation. Up until the Greek crisis, that was the last time that the IMF was forced to intervene to such an extent in Europe.
I have full confidence in the IMF. It is a very strong international institution.
The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.
Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
My congratulations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution.
Every government, from the Obama administration right through to Angela Merkel, the Eurozone and the IMF, promise to save the banks, not the economy.
We're in a chronic debt-deflation. There's no way we can recover unless you write down the debts. And that's what the IMF basically is implying (and it was explicit regarding Greece), but its not spelling it out, because that's not what can be said in polite company.
The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.
I don't know how many resolutions from the IMF or G-20 we have already written saying that such [financial] reforms are necessary for new growth.
The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.
The IMF is the International Mafia Federation. They're the loansharks of last resort.
I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon.
International institutions like the Security Council, the General Assembly, the G20, the BRICs, the IMF, etc. , continue to be little more than an extension of the (increasingly conflicting) values and interests of member states.
By the way, the European Union Member States together - even the euro area Member States together - are by far the biggest contributors to the IMF.
With all that IMF money, the Thailand's and Mexico's are spared the consequences of their fiscal incompetence, and Wall Street's heavy hitters are spared the consequences of their stupid investments. The global economy is a rigged game, rigged so Third World politicians, rich investors and global corporations win - and U. S. taxpayers lose.
The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.
But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.
The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
