G20 Looks to IMF to Show How it Could Help in Debt Crisis

What the IMF could do is contribute capital to the ECB as needed, and then let the ECB write the checks.

G20 Looks to IMF to Show How it Could Help in Debt Crisis

By AP

October 15 (CNBC) — The finance chiefs of the world’s leading economies opened the door Saturday for the International Monetary Fund to play a bigger role in fighting the eurozone’s escalating debt troubles.

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