You're listening to to the Corporate Report.

I'm your host James Corbett of Corporate Report.com, podcasting to you as always from the sunny

climbs of Western Japan here on the 27th day of March 2015.

Welcome to episode 303 of the Corbett Report Podcast, Solutions, the Peer-to-peer economy.

Now I'm sure to my regular listeners and viewers,

the problem at the root of our economic enslavement

will be all too apparent.

Centralized bureaucratic institutions of control

in the back pockets of the oligarch that sit vulture-like

atop the global economy.

If you've been paying attention to Europe for the last few years, you'll be aware of the IMF, the world's financial parachute parents, the all-seeing, all-knowing and apparently bottomless

pit of money for when things in your country get a bit too rioty.

Except some might argue that that isn't really the case.

Even a fleeting glance of the history book would seem to suggest

that things tend to get rather a lot worse once the IMF has rolled into town.

Usually because rather lending you the money to get you out of a tight spot like a friend or

family member might, they say sure you can have the money to get you out of a tight spot like a friend or family member might they say

sure you can have the money but as long as you do this list of very specific things

which is a bit more like what a sugar daddy would do.

Ask the people of Ethiopia if the IMF World Bank Economic Therapy of the 1990s worked in their nation's favor.

Ask them about the fire sale of state assets, public utilities, farms and factories for pennies on the dollar to multinational corporations.

Ask them how US aid helped to dump surplus genetically engineered crops that couldn't be sold in Europe

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