05-03-2010, 07:56 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:I have a better idea. Sell ringside seats at the Parthenon for the ritual beheading of senior bankers who haven't shown gratitude for having been rescued. I'll pay to see that.mokin:
Count me in.
David Guyatt Wrote:Anyway, this is the same sort of deal the Germans are suggesting that saw US companies pick up Tiger nations assets for fire sale prices, after a coterie of hedge funds manipulated the crash of the Tiger economies circa 1998 -- beginning with Thailand, but extending to Korea, Singapore, Japan etc.
They made a fortune sending these countries crashing to their knees by betting against them, and then cherry-picked the assets the most desired.
Yes, indeed.
However, I suspect that German MPs Schäffler & Wanderwitz weren't supposed to be quite so explicit about the nature of the Shock Therapy to be applied to Greece.
Also, I doubt that inherently valuable Greek assets such as Mediterranean islands will all become packed with German naturists, naked except for the odd article of lederhosen, refusing to form orderly queues...
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war