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Topic: global finance

Managing director of the International Monetary Fund, IMF, Christine Lagarde, arrives at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany where she will meet German chancellor Angela Merkel, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP) (AP)

Are the world bank failing the world?

Frank Vogl - The Globalist
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Wall St. gets its comeuppance

David Dayen
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Rise of an imperial plutocracy

Sean McElwee
Paul Tudor Jones

Katie McDonough
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