Crisis Quote by Gita Gopinath

The IMF is set up to deal with liquidity crises.

— Steve Hanke

By promising to intervene in vulnerable markets in the event of excessive financial volatility, the IMF, as the largest player, would reduce coordination problems…

— Gita Gopinath

The IMF is a more complicated issue. I think there is a broad sentiment among both the left and the right that the IMF…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The IMF acts as the collection agent for global bondholders. Its projections begin by assuming that all debts can be paid, if economies will…

— Michael Hudson

“To enable lending to proceed when the IMF’s sustainability criteria were not met, its bureaucrats designed the “systemic risk waiver.” It was a model…

— Michael Hudson

The IMF acts on the mandate of the international community.

— Antonio Guterres

The risk of policy contagion could be magnified if a new funding arrangement were agreed between Argentina and the IMF before a comprehensive policy…

— Charles Dallara

“I became convinced that the advanced industrial countries, through international organizations like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the…

— Joseph E. Stiglitz

The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.

— Che Guevara

The IMF played crucial roles in the 1980s debt crisis and in the transformation of former communist economies. Radical change, many might argue, is…

— Zanny Minton Beddoes

The IMF is the International Mafia Federation. They're the loansharks of last resort.

— Gerald Celente

It seems evident that the IMF has learned nothing from its inequality-inducing policies during the 1980s debt crises in Latin America nor from its…

— Sharan Burrow