The IMF created a $100 billion fund that it will offer to countries that are basically sound, but which may need short-term loans to boost their cash reserves and aid their currencies during the financial crisis. Where does the IMF get their money?

I saw this picture yesterday in my Cold War History class and got a kick out of it... This was taken in May 1988 during Ronald Reagan's speech to Moscow University. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did...

Originally published at duanemoody.com . Please leave any comments there. Today is a pretty decent day for music releases, as there are four CDs that hit shelves today that I had to pick up: ... and we played Rock Band the other night and had a blast with the drums, and the Guitar Hero ones have cymbals (and no crappy pedal)! Looks like I found something to do for the rest of the week, eh!

...the other day, that I was trying ineptly to explain to amy while she was busy with wedding things. It was inspired by a Big Issue article on how only the innovative and transformative power of capitalism can save us from Global Warming. Everyone knows there is an opposition going on between (to split them into ideal types) people who think capitalism is getting us further into this mess and...

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... – Two decades after the Berlin Wall fell, communism's founding father Karl Marx is back in vogue in eastern Germany -- thanks to the global financial crisis. His 1867 critical analysis of capitalism, "Das Kapital" has risen from the publishing graveyard to become an improbable best-seller for academic publisher Karl-Dietz-Verlag. "Everyone thought there would never ever again be any demand...

So I knew it sounded too good to be true, but the student store advertises 25-cent coffee every Thursday, and being a incorrigible caffeine-addict and cheap starving college student, I was of course quite...on a 25-cent coffee?” “Yes.” “Uhhh…” Eventually she takes my quarter with a disgusted noise and lets me leave with everything but my dignity intact. That coffee had an aftertaste of guilt. And shame

...its hard to keep going.  To keep up the political struggling, organising, networking, communicating.  This is all on top of my own personal needs/wants which, as with all of us who live under "advanced" capitalism, is complex. Sometimes it just all seems impossible.  The mountain too massive to even start to scale.  The enemy too massive, too all encompassing.  The odds so hugely stacked against us. ...