Europe's Trillion-Dollar Bailout - Can It Work Forecasts &
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You Seen This?      1. US Taxpayers Bailing Out Greece & the
Rest of Europe   2. Quick History of the International Monetary
Fund   3. IMF Prepares for $1 Trillion Bailout of Europe   4. EU
Bailout Approved, But Will It Work?   5. Will Any of this Money
Ever be Paid Back?   6. The "Cornyn Amendment" - A New Monkey
Wrench   On April 12, the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
increased the capacity of its emergency lending fund from $50
billion to $550 billion, a ten-fold increase, and may increase
it to $750 billion if needed. The IMF's director stated in his
press conference that the additional funding would "ensure that
the Fund has access to adequate resources to help members that
are vulnerable to financial crises."  In order to increase this
emergency funding by half a trillion dollars (or more), the IMF
moved to significantly increase the lending commitments of its
member nations, of wh