Your *whatever*-clause lacks a verb and is therefore ungrammatical: **Whatever money in the world**, I wouldn't eat it. <sup>NO</sup> Either of these would work: > I wouldn't eat it, whatever you *offered* to pay me. > > No matter what you offered to pay me, I wouldn't eat it. With "no matter" you can also say: > I wouldn't eat it, *no matter what!* That is a kind of ellipsis where the missing verb phrase expresses the idea "no matter what [the condition or circumstances happened to be]" or "no matter what [was happening]". It is a variety of BE ellipsis. No matter what [BE]. > .... no matter what [the condition | circumstances happened to be] **no matter what!** is synonymous with *under any circumstances*. You could also say: > I wouldn't eat it *for all the money in the world*.