Depriving entire generations of their hopes for a better future the International Monetary
Fund (IMF) has risen to become the world's most powerful international financial organization.
Blackmailing countries and pillaging whole continents for almost seven decades now its history
resembles a modern-day crusade against the working people on five continents. In his highly
compelling account journalist Ernst Wolff specifies the dramatic consequences of the IMF's
practice of loan sharking and implementing neoliberal austerity measures. While exacerbating
poverty increasing hunger furthering the spread of diseases and fuelling armed conflicts on
the one hand the Fund's policies have on the other hand helped a tiny group of ultra-rich
profiteers increase their vast fortunes to immeasurable dimensions - allegedly in the name of
ensuring the stability of the global financial system.
