Weekend Economists Examine the Root of All Evil: February 28-March 2, 2014

[Demeter]

99. Do you want to know what REALLY just happened?

Goldman Sachs made a ploy for the Crimea, and lost. Big time. The Euro-trash technocrats thought they could sucker the western Ukrainians with empty promises into their Procrustean bed. And maybe they still can. But the banksters won't get the only asset worth pillaging out of Ukraine: Russia's warm-water port. I wonder what the feeble GS plan was: charge Russia exorbitant rent at an annually increasing rate?

And no matter how the Golden Sacks jump up and down in fury, nobody's going to a shooting war to pull their con-game gambit out of the fire. I wonder if they will actually lose money over this, or just credibility? That's assuming, after Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, etc., they have any credibility. Far more likely, those besieged populations will stop laying down and yielding all, and start fighting back, as they should have done from the start.