Executive Branch slush-fund for medium-term loans to foreign governments.

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John Lipsky, number two at the IMF, said this week that the euro is above the fund's medium-term valuation benchmark.

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There are several reasons, one of the more subtle among them being that the insurer can fund the product entirely with medium- and long-term bonds, since there are no payments in the short term.

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