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Laurel, we're starting tonight with a surprising decision by somebody at the IMF.

Now, I don't know a whole lot about the story, but you did tell me briefly beforehand that people who kind of know what to expect from this organization might be surprised by what they said. Let's get into it.

Okay, well, this is an article from NPR entitled A Guardian of Global Capitalism, Warns Capitalism has a problem. Okay, so right off the bat, we're thinking they're anti-capitalist. What is this?

So I'm actually going to skip the first two paragraphs because they're not very interesting.

Okay, thank you for that.

So, okay, so we start on the third paragraph.

Wendy Chen, an economist in the IMF's research department, presented the findings of an impressive study that can be found in chapter two of the IMF's world economic outlook.

That's the International Monetary Fund.

This is like a monster kind of bureaucratic banking.

If you're anti-globalist, you do not like the IMF. Okay. Yeah, they lend money to third world countries.

Evildoers. And then when those third real countries can't pay it back, then the IMF like makes

arrangements with them in exchange for that country doing what the

IMF says. Right. So it's how they take control of countries. There's a book written by a guy,

what was it called, Confessions of an Economic Hitman. A lot of people talk about where he was involved

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