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Bloomberg - European leaders meeting in Brussels agreed to lend the IMF as much as 200 billion euros ($268 billion), opening the way for aid from nations such as Brazil and South Korea. While the U.S. supports the effort, it won’t participate, an administration official said in Washington yesterday. ---------- // Reuters - Worries grow over IMF loans to Europe - The prospect of European heavyweights like Italy or Spain turning to the IMF for rescue loans is worrying the United States and other nations that fear they could suffer losses on funds they have extended to the IMF.-----------// WSJ - Fed to Congress: 'We Didn't Do It' : The Fed is wrong when it says its loans were not a subsidy. In fact, the Fed did lend money to banks at a rate that was cheaper than the prevailing market rate. -----------