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Podcast: The Peter McCormack Show
Episode: Can Bitcoin Fix the IMF & World Bank with Alex Gladstein & Natalie Smolenski - WBD674
Description: Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation & Natalie Smolenski is an Executive Director of the Texas Bitcoin Foundation. In this interview, we discuss Alex's new book: 'Hidden Repression: How the IMF and World Bank Sell Exploitation as Development'. We talk about debt traps, western support for dictators, US and UK culpability, and what freedom means. - - - - The IMF and World Bank were originally created to stabilize exchange rates and fund infrastructure in war-torn countries. Alex Gladstein's work found that there was a pivot in this mission in the...