“I’m totally unhappy about having to borrow from the I.M.F.,” Mr. Akos Bod, the Hungarian central banker, said. “I thought in my lifetime, we would never have to borrow from the I.M.F.”

About the time the IMF was written off as irrelevant, it pops out of its casket anew.

West Is in Talks on Credit to Aid Poorer Nations

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/bu...ef=todayspaper

So altruistic....;)