Finance Ministers meeting in Washington DC for their Spring IMF/World Bank meetings failed to address the multiple economic challenges of our times with any degree of urgency - incrementalism is just not good enough.

The world faces its gravest humanitarian crisis in many decades at a time when official development assistance is declining - the World Bank needs to relieve the crisis as an exception to its usual long-term lending.

Increasing evidence shows significant increases in transnational money laundering at a time when the Trump Administration has reduced corruption investigations and when organized crime and kleptocrats are using crypto as a means of evading detection.

The humanitarian crises in the world’s poorest countries are multiplying due to violence, climate change, corruption and reduced official development assistance - who cares about the 500 million people in absolute misery?

Leaders of democracies across the world are ;largely silent as Trump moves the U.S. towards authoritarianism. The democracies have been in retreat, as authoritarianism spreads across the world. Now the pace of authoritarianism’s momentum is accelerating.

Not a week passes without a new major White House announcement that tramples on the grave of justice. The scope of actions is large and rising. Are there parallels with the early days of Nazi Germany?

2025 has seen a radical change in the ways in which the United States conducts foreign policy - now it is extortion and transactions that benefit ther President. Long cherished alliances are discarded. Friends are rewarded.

America has entered a new gilded age with the robber barons forging direct deals with President Trump - changing the landscape of big business and government.

It is time that the World Bank moved ahead to implement understandings to work in far closer partnerships with civil society organizations in the developing and emerging market countries in which the Bank supports projects and programs.

Trump’s foreign policies are marked by favoritism, flattery and extortion.

Across the world we are seeing mounting humanitarian crises while foreign aid from the wealthiest nations is being sharply cut.

Trump’s Ammerica First threatens the World Bank’s funding, whiole the US increasingly pressures the IMF to funds favored nations - example, Argentina.

Fighting Human Trafficking - The Urgency for Action Against Sexual Corruption

Tracking actions by the Trump Administration to couymnter laws and rules against corruption and fraud.

The Trump Administration is moving forward with sweeping financial deregulation - could this risk a major financial crisis?

Can U.S. democracy be saved as the Trump-Musk onslaught moves ahead?

Donald Trump returns to the White House and opens the door to what could be the boldest and most blatant corrupt use of power in America in modern times.

Granting the U.S. President absolute immunity for official acts will encourage autocrats everywhere - the Supreme Court strikes a blow against democracy.

Cryptocurrencies and Greed - serving the corrupt, reflecting a loss of public confidence in governments.