H****g
发帖数: 14447 | 1 “斯蒂格利茨透露，所有的国家都有同一类药方等着他们：
第一副药：私有化。更准确地说是贿赂化”。受援国领导人在只要同意贱价出让国有资
产，他们将得到10%的佣金，全部付到瑞士银行的秘密账户上。用斯蒂格利茨的话说你
会看到他们的眼睛瞪大了，那将是数十亿美元的巨款！当1995年历史上最大的贿赂发生
在俄罗斯私有化过程中时，美国财政部认为这好极了，因为我们需要叶利钦当选。我们
不在乎这是否是一场腐败的选举。我们希望钱涌到叶利钦那里。
第二副药：资本市场自由化。从理论上讲，资本自由化意味着资本自由地流入和流出。
可是亚洲金融风暴和巴西金融危机的实际情况是，资本自由流入来爆炒房地产、股市和
汇市。在危机来临之际，资本只是自由地流出，再流出，被斯蒂格利茨称为热钱的投机
资本总是最先逃跑，受灾国的外汇储备在几天甚至几个小时之内就被吸干。IMF伸手救
援的条件包括紧缩银根，将利率提高到30%、50%、80%的荒谬程度，这样高的利息只会
无情摧毁房地产价值，破坏工业生产能力，吸干社会多年积累的财富。
第三副药：市场定价。当半死不活的受灾国被IMF拖到这步田地时，IMF又提出对食品、
饮用水和天然气等老百姓日常必须的产品大幅提价，最终的结果完全可以想象，大量的
市民示威甚至暴动。1998年印尼由于IMF削减了食物和燃料的补贴，爆发了大规模暴动
。玻利维亚由于水价上涨导致市民暴动。厄瓜多尔由于天然气价格飞涨引起了社会骚乱
。而这一切早就被国际银行家们掐算好了，用他们的术语，这叫做社会动荡（
SocialUnrest）。而这种社会动荡有一个非常好的作用，那就是资金像受惊的鸟儿四散
奔逃，而留下一片极其低廉的资产等待着早已垂涎三尺的国际银行家的血盆大口。
当埃塞俄比亚第一位民主选举的总统在危机中接受世界银行和IMF的援助时，却被迫将
这些援助款项存到她在美国财政部的账户上，只拿到4%微薄的利息，与此同时却不得不
向国际银行家以12%的高利借款来救济饥肠辘辘的人民。当新总统向斯蒂格利茨乞求动
用世界银行和IMF的援助款来救灾时，斯蒂格利茨却只能拒绝他的要求。这是对人类良
知的残酷考验，斯蒂格利茨显然不能承受这样的折磨。
第四副药：缩减贫困策略：自由贸易。在这样的境况之下，斯蒂格利茨将WTO的自由贸
易条款比作鸦片战争”。斯蒂格利茨尤其对知识产权条款感到愤慨，以这样高的知识产
权关税来支付西方国家制药厂所生产的品牌药品，无异于将当地人民诅咒致死，他们(
西方制药公司)根本不在乎人民的死活”。
在斯蒂格利茨看来，IMF、世界银行和WTO都是一个机构外的不同牌子而已。IMF对市场
开放的苛刻条件甚至超过了官方的WTO。
The Real Motives of the World Bank and the IMF
Condensed from an interview by Greg Palast
As a former member of Bill Clinton's cabinet as Chairman of the President's
council of economic advisors and the former chief economist for the World
Bank, Joe Stiglitz had access to information, which was not available to
outsiders. The World Bank fired Joe Stiglitz in 1999 for his apparent
dissent of the bank’s economic policies on globalization. He had come to
realize that the political ideology of his employer had gone rotten and he
was now ready to “spill the beans” regarding some of the bank’s dubious
activities. The word is that he was not allowed to go quietly into the night
as US Treasury Secretary, Larry Summers, was demanding a public
excommunication of Mr. Stiglitz for having made his views known to the
public.
In a recent interview with The London Observer and BBC TV’s Newsnight,
some of the real, often hidden workings of the IMF, World Bank, and the bank
’s 51% owner, the US Treasury were revealed. Also, documents marked “
confidential”, “restricted”, and “ not otherwise (to be) disclosed
without World Bank authorization were brought to light. One such document
entitled “Country Assistance Strategy” outlined the assistance strategy
for every poor nation, designed, says the World Bank, after a careful, in-
country investigation. But, according to insider Stiglitz, the bank’s staff
“investigation” consisted of a close inspection of each nation’s five-
star hotels. It ends with the Bank’s staff meeting some begging, pleading
finance minister who is handed a “restructuring agreement” pre-drafted for
his “voluntary” signature. Each nation’s economy is individually
analyzed, then, says Stiglitz, the bank hands every minister the same, exact
four-step program.
Step One is Privatization – which Stiglitz says could be more accurately
labeled “briberization”. National leaders, using the World Bank’s
demands to silence the local critics – happily flogged their electricity
and water companies for a 10% commission to be paid into a Swiss bank
account for simply shaving a few billion off the sale price of their
national assets. (Control ends up in the hands of a few and, ultimately, the
monopolization of these essential assets leads to higher costs for
consumers.)
Step Two of the “rescue” plan is “Capital Market Liberalization”. In
theory, capital market deregulation allows investment capital to flow in
and out. Unfortunately, as in Indonesia and Brazil, the money simply flowed
out and out. Stiglitz calls this the “Hot Money” cycle as cash comes in
for speculation in real estate and currency, and then flees at the first
sign of trouble. A nation’s reserves can drain in days or hours and when
that happens, to seduce speculators into returning a nation’s own capital
funds, the IMF demands these nations raise interest rates to 30%, 50% or
more. The results are predictable, demolished property values, crippled
industrial production and empty national treasuries.
At this point, the IMF drags the gasping nation to Step Three; Market
Based Pricing, a fancy term for raising prices on food, water, and other
essentials. This leads, predictably, to Step Three and a Half, what Stiglitz
calls the IMF riot.
When a nation is “down and out, the IMF takes advantage and squeezes the
last pound of flesh out of them. They turn up the heat until the whole
cauldron blows up,” as when the IMF eliminated food and fuel subsidies for
the poor in Indonesia in 1998. The people rioted, but there were other
examples – the Bolivian riots over water prices in 2000 and this February (
2001), the riots in Ecuador over this rise in cooking gas prices imposed by
the World Bank. (It is almost as though the riots were part of the plan)
One such “plan”, the “Interim Country Assistance Strategy” for Ecuador
stated with cold accuracy that “social unrest” was expected. The secret
report notes that the plan to make the US dollar Ecuador’s national
currency has pushed 51% of the population below the poverty line. The World
Bank “Assistance” plan simply calls for facing down civil strife and
suffering with “political resolve” – and still higher prices.
The IMF riots cause more panic and the flight of capital out of the
countries and the ultimate bankruptcy of governments. (Look at recent events
in Argentina). Foreign corporations also take advantage of these
situations by buying up remaining assets at fire sale prices.
A pattern soon emerges. There are lots of losers and one clear winner, the
Western banks and the US Treasury making big bucks off this crafty
international scam. Stiglitz told a story of his early days at the World
Bank. He met with Ethiopia’s newly elected president and the World Bank and
the IMF had ordered Ethiopia to divert aid money to its reserve account at
the US Treasury which, pays a pitiful 4% return, while the nation borrowed
US dollars at 12% to feed its population. The new president begged Stiglitz
to let him use the aid money to rebuild the nation, but no, the loot went
straight off to the US Treasury’s vault in Washington.
Now Step Four of what the IMF and the World Bank call their “poverty
reduction strategy.” Free Trade as designed by the WTO and the World Bank.
Europeans and Americans are kicking down the barriers to sales in Asia,
Latin America and Africa, while barricading their own markets against Third
World agriculture. In the past, the West used military blockades to force
open markets. Today, the World Bank can order a financial blockade, which is
just as effective – and sometimes just as deadly.
Stiglitz is particularly annoyed over the WTO’s intellectual property
rights treaty, which, he says, condemns the people to death by imposing
impossible tariffs and tributes to pay pharmaceutical companies for branded
medicines. “They don’t care if the people live or die.”
The IMF, World Bank and the WTO are interchangeable masks of a singled
governance system. They have locked themselves together by what are called
“triggers.” Taking a World Bank loan for a school “triggers” a
requirement to accept every “conditionality” – they average 111 per
nation – laid down by both the World Bank and the IMF. In fact, Stiglitz
says the IMF requires nations to accept trade policies more punitive than
the official WTO rules.
Stiglitz says that World Bank plans are devised in secrecy and driven by
an absolutist ideology and are never open for discourse or dissent. Despite
the West’s push for elections throughout the developing world, the so-
called “Poverty Reductions Programs undermine democracy.” These programs
simply don’t work. Black Africa’s productivity under the guiding hand of
the IMF “structural assistance” has gone to hell in a handbag. Only one
nation has managed to avoid a similar fate. Botswana told the IMF to “take
a hike”.
According to Dr. John Coleman, former MI 6 agent in Britain, the
international bankers met in Williamsburg, Va. in 1983 to work out a
strategy to prepare the United States for a total disintegration of its
banking system. This planned event, The Ditchley Plan, was to stampede the U
.S. Senate into accepting control of the monetary and fiscal policies of the
IMF and World Bank. The plan called for the IMF and the World Bank
influence to be broadened so that it could influence Central Banks of all
nations including the U.S. and Canada (See Bank of Canada) and guide them
into the hands of a One World Government Bank.
Reading this revealing testimony and looking at what is happening in
Canada, one has to wonder if the same fate awaits us. The pressure is on to
privatize, our social programs are in a mess, our dollar is being purposely
driven into the tank and our economy is hanging on by a thread. The so-
called free trade agreements are showing themselves to be anything but free
or fair and the nation’s debt continues to grow as more and more of our
citizens slip under the poverty line. Canada is falling prey to this monster
and we better take notice before it is too late, otherwise, we will
experience what many of these other third world countries are going through
at present. Since the first free trade agreement in 1988, over 15,000
Canadian businesses have fallen under foreign ownership. Companies like
Bauer Sports, Cooper Sports, MacMillen Bloedel, West Kootenay Power, Shopper
's Drug Mart, Tim Horton's, Gulf Canada Resources Ltd, Laura Secord,
Anderson Exploration, Hunter Exploration, Club Monaco Inc., and many, many
others. Even CN Rail is majority owned by Americans. Could CP Rail be next??
Over one half of our oil and gas industry is under foreign ownership and
control. We are losing our country and we are letting it happen under our
very noses. One day we will all wake up and discover we have nothing but a
shell of a country, virtually worthless and meaningless.
” | C**E
发帖数: 2573 | 2 Re
【在 H****g 的大作中提到】
: “斯蒂格利茨透露，所有的国家都有同一类药方等着他们：
: 第一副药：私有化。更准确地说是贿赂化”。受援国领导人在只要同意贱价出让国有资
: 产，他们将得到10%的佣金，全部付到瑞士银行的秘密账户上。用斯蒂格利茨的话说你
: 会看到他们的眼睛瞪大了，那将是数十亿美元的巨款！当1995年历史上最大的贿赂发生
: 在俄罗斯私有化过程中时，美国财政部认为这好极了，因为我们需要叶利钦当选。我们
: 不在乎这是否是一场腐败的选举。我们希望钱涌到叶利钦那里。
: 第二副药：资本市场自由化。从理论上讲，资本自由化意味着资本自由地流入和流出。
: 可是亚洲金融风暴和巴西金融危机的实际情况是，资本自由流入来爆炒房地产、股市和
: 汇市。在危机来临之际，资本只是自由地流出，再流出，被斯蒂格利茨称为热钱的投机
: 资本总是最先逃跑，受灾国的外汇储备在几天甚至几个小时之内就被吸干。IMF伸手救
| m*****u
发帖数: 723 | 3 re,这已经不再是秘密了，都知道瘟贼是汉奸了！
【在 H****g 的大作中提到】
: “斯蒂格利茨透露，所有的国家都有同一类药方等着他们：
: 第一副药：私有化。更准确地说是贿赂化”。受援国领导人在只要同意贱价出让国有资
: 产，他们将得到10%的佣金，全部付到瑞士银行的秘密账户上。用斯蒂格利茨的话说你
: 会看到他们的眼睛瞪大了，那将是数十亿美元的巨款！当1995年历史上最大的贿赂发生
: 在俄罗斯私有化过程中时，美国财政部认为这好极了，因为我们需要叶利钦当选。我们
: 不在乎这是否是一场腐败的选举。我们希望钱涌到叶利钦那里。
: 第二副药：资本市场自由化。从理论上讲，资本自由化意味着资本自由地流入和流出。
: 可是亚洲金融风暴和巴西金融危机的实际情况是，资本自由流入来爆炒房地产、股市和
: 汇市。在危机来临之际，资本只是自由地流出，再流出，被斯蒂格利茨称为热钱的投机
: 资本总是最先逃跑，受灾国的外汇储备在几天甚至几个小时之内就被吸干。IMF伸手救
| w*********r
发帖数: 42116 | 4 我个人认为大陆应该全盘私有化。
【在 H****g 的大作中提到】
: “斯蒂格利茨透露，所有的国家都有同一类药方等着他们：
: 第一副药：私有化。更准确地说是贿赂化”。受援国领导人在只要同意贱价出让国有资
: 产，他们将得到10%的佣金，全部付到瑞士银行的秘密账户上。用斯蒂格利茨的话说你
: 会看到他们的眼睛瞪大了，那将是数十亿美元的巨款！当1995年历史上最大的贿赂发生
: 在俄罗斯私有化过程中时，美国财政部认为这好极了，因为我们需要叶利钦当选。我们
: 不在乎这是否是一场腐败的选举。我们希望钱涌到叶利钦那里。
: 第二副药：资本市场自由化。从理论上讲，资本自由化意味着资本自由地流入和流出。
: 可是亚洲金融风暴和巴西金融危机的实际情况是，资本自由流入来爆炒房地产、股市和
: 汇市。在危机来临之际，资本只是自由地流出，再流出，被斯蒂格利茨称为热钱的投机
: 资本总是最先逃跑，受灾国的外汇储备在几天甚至几个小时之内就被吸干。IMF伸手救
| e***z
发帖数: 7126 | 5 扯淡。整个国家都是他们几大家族的。你这个10%佣金不是搞笑么？
洋垃圾没见过世面
【在 H****g 的大作中提到】
: “斯蒂格利茨透露，所有的国家都有同一类药方等着他们：
: 第一副药：私有化。更准确地说是贿赂化”。受援国领导人在只要同意贱价出让国有资
: 产，他们将得到10%的佣金，全部付到瑞士银行的秘密账户上。用斯蒂格利茨的话说你
: 会看到他们的眼睛瞪大了，那将是数十亿美元的巨款！当1995年历史上最大的贿赂发生
: 在俄罗斯私有化过程中时，美国财政部认为这好极了，因为我们需要叶利钦当选。我们
: 不在乎这是否是一场腐败的选举。我们希望钱涌到叶利钦那里。
: 第二副药：资本市场自由化。从理论上讲，资本自由化意味着资本自由地流入和流出。
: 可是亚洲金融风暴和巴西金融危机的实际情况是，资本自由流入来爆炒房地产、股市和
: 汇市。在危机来临之际，资本只是自由地流出，再流出，被斯蒂格利茨称为热钱的投机
: 资本总是最先逃跑，受灾国的外汇储备在几天甚至几个小时之内就被吸干。IMF伸手救
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