Mish/ Mike Shedlock – Throwing Bones To Greece; A Victory For Europe ( Or A Victory For French And German Banks)? – 18 June 2012

Throwing Bones to Greece

In the wake of New Democracy eking out a victory over Syriza in the Greek elections, the nannycrats are willing to toss a few bones to Greece.

For example this headline on Bloomberg says Euro Chiefs Signal Greek Austerity Softening as Summit Looms.

John Ward – Evangelo Vinezelos, An Overflowing Bank Account, & German Arms Bribery – 11 March 2012

Mathiopoulus (l) with German Foreign Minister Bruno Westerwelle

The good life and bad deeds of the Greek elite, featuring Margarita Mathiopoulus

Large numbers of poverty-stricken Greeks are wondering this weekend why their Finance Minister’s current account with an Athenian bank has in excess of three million euros in it. He is clearly a man with little need to worry about sweating his assets, and with every day the evidence as to why that might be keeps on piling up – thanks to the generosity of Greek contacts fed up of seeing their country rogered by fatties. It seems that no matter where you start in the Greek elite, all roads lead to Evangelo Venizelos. Today we start with Greco-German trougher, Margarita Mathiopoulus.