IMF Concurs on Evaluation of Greece
So, the IMF published a memo on the Greece debt situation (memo is here , link referencing story is here ). Basically, the memo outlines why the IMF will refuse to give Greece any more money, unless the other EU countries sign up to give Greece their money first. It is, by all appearances, a rational response to the most recent asinine bailout "agreement" reached over the weekend , which calls for (among other things) the IMF to dump another 50B euros into the bottomless monetary waste pit that is Greece. Yes, by refusing to participate in the latest round of handouts, the IMF might be writing off its loan to Greece. However, with the current economic and political realities in Greece, they probably should have written off that money at the point they "lent" it, and certainly should have penciled it in as "gone" at the point of the latest elections. Greece simply has no will to repay their national debts, even if they had the ability to do so (which they...