{"id":9950,"date":"2009-02-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"europe-pledges-more-funds-for-imf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2009\/europe-pledges-more-funds-for-imf.html","title":{"rendered":"Europe pledges more funds for IMF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Globe &#8211; The leaders of Germany, Britain, France, and Italy yesterday said that the resources of the International Monetary Fund should be doubled, to $500 billion, to help head off new problems in countries already hit hard by the global economic and financial crisis.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"embed\">                                                            <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The officials also said, in a statement clearly aimed at hedge funds and other big private pools of capital, that &quot;all financing markets and participants&quot; need to fall under regulation in the future. And they vowed to make a tough push against tax havens.<\/p>\n<p>With one eye on a crisis that is rapidly spreading to Eastern Europe and even countries that use the euro, the leaders highlighted the crisis-prevention role of the IMF, an institution whose relevance to the current global economy seemed in doubt only a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/articles\/2009\/02\/23\/europe_pledges_more_funds_for_imf\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Globe &#8211; The leaders of Germany, Britain, France, and Italy yesterday said that the resources of the International Monetary Fund should be doubled, to $500 billion, to help head off new problems in countries already hit hard by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4608,8011,8010,2338,7890,4726,8014,280,7178,7172,8013,5696,8009,8012,7969],"class_list":["post-9950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-boston-globe","tag-countries-that-use-the-euro","tag-crisis-prevention","tag-doubt","tag-eastern-europe","tag-financial-crisis","tag-germany","tag-global-economy","tag-imf","tag-international-monetary-fund","tag-italy","tag-participants","tag-private-pools","tag-relevance","tag-tax-havens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}