03.12.2011 - 21:12 [ New York Times ]

European Leaders Look to I.M.F. for Assistance, Again, as Euro Crisis Lingers

“Europe is rich enough. It is not in net deficit, when you balance out all of the trade deficits and surpluses,” says Raghuram Rajan, a professor at the University of Chicago and former chief economist at the I.M.F. “What Europe needs right now is money that is willing to absorb losses — and the I.M.F. is not going to provide the money that absorbs losses.”