What's happened here by Mr. Paulson of Goldman Sachs is almost a mirror image of what the other Goldman Sachs» Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin did in Russia: he's creating and endowing a class of kleptocrats by giving them liquid treasury securities in exchange for basically worthless junk. (michael-hudson.com)
Now we are ruled with impunity by kleptocrats because Christianity made Africa the dumping ground for the feudal and infallible systems that the European Enlightenment and American Revolution discarded. (religion-online.org)
Wilbur has put himself in the same company as Russian kleptocrats who put themselves in control of a company and give themselves favorable shares of company stocks,» said Loeb. (nakedcapitalism.com)