A brief quote from the IMF’s mandate should clarify where this Greek thing
may be heading…:
“to promote international monetary cooperation through a permanent
institution which provides the machinery for consultation and collaboration
on international monetary problems; [and] … (v.) to give confidence to
members by making the general resources of the Fund temporarily available to
them under adequate safeguards, thus providing them with opportunity to
correct maladjustments in their balance of pa
