Mar 23, 2022
Wow, this article brought back memories. I remembered all of this -- but had forgotten many details. Nice work.
The IMF sort of fits its sister acronym from Mission Impossible - The Mission Impossible Force.
It imposes impossible austerity measures for its loans.
One of its more recent victims is Greece, which of course is encountering its own brush with ultra rightists in the wake of a devastated economy:
