IMFは近く資金を増やす必要ありかも、とラガルド

Lagarde Says IMF May Need More Funds
(WSJ-Europe, 7/27/11)

外部支援を必要とする国が従来以上に多いため、IMFはもっとおカネが必要になる、と新IMFトップのラガルド。国内問題でこれだけもめてる米国が、欧州問題のためにカネ必要だというIMFにすんなり首を縦に振るだろうか・・・。

"The question is, do we still have the level of resources that is now needed and appropriate to address…the crises," Ms. Lagarde said at a Council of Foreign Relations event in New York. "Maybe it could do with more. In the not-too-distant future, we will probably have to revisit this issue."

Given the record level of demand for external financing, economists have doubted the IMF—or the euro zone—has sufficient backstop capital to handle larger euro-zone countries that are increasingly at risk of needing financial help.

Italy and Spain, in particular, continue to come under attack by markets uneasy over the countries' financial and fiscal health.