The International Monetary Fund - IMF - is another global financial institute closely tied to the aims and behaviours of the World Bank

The IMF is primarily concerned with maintaining balanced and stable currency exchange rates, monitoring and intervening in countries' balance of trade, and international trade policies.

The outward appearance is of an altruistic organisation concerned with world stability and healthy financial progress, in reality it is another means by which rich selfish bankers can control international finance and enrich themselves and their powers of control.

Although we have seen recently the IMF wielding its powers and threatening to intervene in the affairs of soveriegn nations many people still do not realise that this is a collection of unelected private individuals and that in effect their countries, their economies and their lives are under the direct control of this private banking mafia.

A recent high profile US representative in the IMF is Ben Bernanke, a Bilderberg attendee, a Governer of the Federal Reserve, a chairman on George W Bush's Council of Economic Advisers and advisor to President Obama.

John Perkins - author of "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" - on the IMF