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16.03.09, 18:46
IMF poised to print billions of dollars in 'global quantitative easing'
The International Monetary Fund is poised to embark on what analysts have
described as "global quantitative easing" by printing billions of dollars
worth of a global "super-currency" in an unprecedented new effort to
address the economic crisis.
Alistair Darling and senior figures in the US Treasury have been encouraging
the Fund to issue hundreds of billions of dollars worth of so-called
Special Drawing Rights in the coming months as part of its campaign to
prevent the recession from turning into a global depression.
Should the move, which is up for discussion by the summit of G20 finance
ministers this weekend, be adopted, it will represent a global equivalent
of the Bank of England's plan to pump extra cash into the UK economy.
www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/4986287/IMF-poised-to-print-billions-of-dollars-in-global-quantitative-easing.html