Inside the World Bank What they’re doing with your money is a crime James Bovard | From the April 1989 issue of Reason magazine [excerpted by Reader’s Digest] Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on RedditShare by emailPrint friendly versionCopy page URL Last year Congress voted a $14-billion increase in World Bank funding from the United […]
Radio host Shaun Thompson and I had fun lambasting the World Bank and big-spending U.S. politicians on his show on AM560 in Chicago. Thompson, the host of “The Liberty Hour” program, especially despises Keynesian type economic policies that pretend endless government spending will make everyone rich – eventually. I especially appreciated his kind words for […]
Update: Here’s a more recent piece I wrote on the World Bank continuing to finance tyrants. A U.N. Special Rapporteur reported in 2015 that the World Bank’s approach “to human rights is incoherent, counterproductive and unsustainable. For most purposes, the World Bank is a human rights-free zone.” Mises Institute, December 13, 2021 Raiding the World […]
The Senate impeachment trial of President Trump is hinging on U.S. foreign aid to Ukraine. The Democratic House impeachment managers flogged the details of that aid so hard that even policy junkies are ready for cry for mercy. But almost no one is mentioning that foreign aid has been a perpetual boondoggle for more than […]
Jim Yong Kim, the president of the World Bank, announced today that he is quitting to take a better paying job in the private sector. This is a good opportunity to reconsider the Bank’s long record of bankrolling tyranny – a sordid practice that continued under Kim’s presidency. For decades, the World Bank has propped […]
I was rummaging through old files tonight and stumbled across this profile from 30 years ago. Charles Clark did a kindly write-up which I much appreciated. The World Bank hated me back then so National Journal photographer Richard Bloom and I tromped there for a cigar photo in front of their entrance on a bitter cold […]
This is the 30th anniversary of my first attack on the World Bank in the national media. Reposted below are some of my attacks on the Bank from the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. I discuss in Public Policy Hooligan how I nabbed some of the confidential documents exposed below. The Bank continues […]
tim mcgraw
Jim, whose life is idyllic? LOL. But I never had t
Jim
Thanks, JdL! Ya, this isn't going to have a h
Jim
Ya, his life wasn't idyllic.
Jim
Sorry for those damn boxes. They blocked me from
Jim
thanks!
