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IMF Continues To Push For Europe “Firewall”

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The IMF has been at the forefront of the effort two increase funds set to save weak eurozone economies. IMF chief Christine Lagarde used her bully pulpit at Davos to further the cause of an additional $650 billion to be added to the bailout facility. So far, Germany has not bitten on the suggestion, and it is so large that its agreement is essential.

Reuters reports that

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde led a global push on Saturday for the euro zone to boost its financial firewall, saying “if it is big enough it will not get used.”

The accuracy of the statement is not assured. A recession, which has begun to spread across the weakest nations in Europe could easily swell their deficits well beyond current projects, which, added to a slow adoption of austerity measure in some nations, could make Lagarde’s plan incomplete.

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