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June 7, 2013
The International Monetary Fund admitted it didn’t realize how damaging the draconian Greek bailout austerity measures it imposed would be to Greece’s economy.
The 2010-imposed austerity measures in the first bailout helped Greece avoid bankruptcy but also caused the country’s economy, already in recession, to plummet, the IMF said in an internal report made public after its contents were reported by The Wall Street Journal.
In contrast to publicly stated high hopes of the first bailout of $144 billion put together by the “troika” of the IMF, European Commission and European Central Bank in May 2010, “market confidence was not restored, the banking system lost 30 percent of its deposits and the economy encountered a much deeper-than-expected recession with exceptionally high unemployment,” the report said.
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