. . .
1 “‘GrExit’ admixes ‘Greek’ with ‘exit’ and may be the ‘Portmanteau Word of the Year for 2015’.”
2 “Or 2016? Who knows. They are punting and kicking.”
1 “What about ‘GrexEUnt’ for the ‘Greece’ ‘exeunt’ from the ‘EU’ because the dancing is so dramatic? Devastating to stay, devastating to go. So we Do-si-do and around we go.”
. . .
1 “Two prize fighters are circling each other warily, a flyweight versus a heavyweight. In one corner, Greece cannot under any circumstances pay the massive debt to Germany (now d.b.a. IMF, ECB and EC) amassed by the Greek oligarchs. In the other corner, Germany cannot under any circumstances allow Greece not to pay the massive debt it claims is owed to Germany. In the stands, Greek citizens who now realize that the banks got bailed out but the citizens were abandoned and will suffer under any scenario. On the sidelines, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Spain (PIIGS) and other sovereign colonies await the outcome and their turn in the ring. An unstoppable force meets an immovable object.”
2 “The Parthenon painted in black, red and gold does not seem striking.”
1 “The Pantheon bedecked in black, red and gold could trigger some strikes.”
2 “Another great battle between the ‘Versailles Reparations’ paradigm and the ‘Marshall Plan’ paradigm.”
1 “The central Lesson of the Twentieth Century is that it is easier to take by investment than by invasion. The central Corollary of the Twenty-First Century is that you cannot take too much by investment or you risk an invasion.”
2 “The German group should not have foisted all the funds on the Greek oligarchs; the Greek oligarchs should not have gotten all the lucre from the German group. Seems that they are each about fifty percent culpable. Split the difference?”
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1 “Markets usually price in inevitable developments and go on with life and business. Which side has the market priced to prevail and how will the outcome play out on the planet?”
2 “What if Greece remains in NATO, pivots to Russia for assistance and opposes sanctions against Russia from the inside? The BRICS Confederacy will need to fashion a new acronym.”
1 “The astute Western players might keep Greece cum a new drachma in the European Union for trade and transportation purposes and for international security concerns.”
2 “O’Bama traveled to India to keep India from allying more closely with the BRICS.”
1 “Senator Bernie Sanders wants the Federal Reserve to ride to the rescue. He understands the Corollary. However, expanding the Federal Reserve to become the American Monetary Fund (AMF) may not be wise or prudent.”
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2 “The Europeans are fighting their civil war with each other and were drafted to serve as proxies and mercenaries to fight America’s currency war with Russia. The French cannot sell fromage, the Pols cannot sell apples, and even the Germans cannot sell brats. And no one can buy inexpensive gas from Russia. And America does what America does. America sits back far from the front and consumes.”
1 “And secretly funds some folks. The Europeans are fighting America’s war with Russia and not making their required NATO defense expenditures. The Germans and others could write off some of the debts and then book the amounts against their required NATO defense expenditures. America is committed to fighting the Russians until the last European collapses.”
2 “America may not be able to sit back. Under settled international law, America’s cyberespionage against Russia, China, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran are each acts of war that provide justification for those countries to attack America. America’s antics may trigger an unattractive response. Not a pretty situation.”
1 “But remember that America has proclaimed that it can always unilaterally exempt itself from international law.”
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2 “The punting and kicking the can now is measured in time not in distance. With the four month reprieve until June 21, the new ‘high noon’ show down occurs on the longest day of the year.”
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2 “Greece is a failed state with few clear public records describing private property ownership, a tax collection non-system and a distended pension system. Without a functioning country or economy in Greece, the prospect of a functioning country or economy in Greece is not promising. Stay tuned. Film at 11.”
1 “During the sports segment, surely.”
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[See the article at “U.S. Embedded Spyware Overseas, Report Claims” in “The New York Times” by Nicole Perlroth and David E. Sanger dated February 16, 2015.]
Bumper stickers of the week:
You can provide liquidity but you cannot provide solvency
Can God create a stone so heavy that not even God is strong enough to lift it? Can man create a debt so heavy that not even mankind is strong enough to lift it?
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