Sentences with word «kleptocrat»

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.

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.

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.

This is a historic event: the first time an accused kleptocrat who is still in power is being held accountable for his actions.

The notion that Donald Trump, self - professed admirer of Vladimir Putin, is going to defend persecuted Middle East Christians is as ludicrous as the claim that Mr. Putin, ex-KGB thug and current kleptocrat, gives a tinker's dam about the Christian victims of ISIS.

Basically, rich Arsenal fans, pay up or admire the work Wenger has done so far in a time when kleptocrats are funding many other big clubs.

Fearing the Russian system of kleptocrat rule is also perfectly rational.

This can be done by its wealthy fan base with donations to raise the money needed — but I suspect no one love Arsenal that much to dish - out cash... well, maybe there is kleptocrat somewhere, who just might!

Limiting the abilities of suspected kleptocrats, their families, and friends to enter the US and enjoy their loot abroad will provide a significant crimp in their lifestyles.»

Another is that deposing kleptocrats and promoting democracy would (for similar reasons) encourage rulers in other countries to liberalize, lest the US invade them.

The real mystery is how any voter could support a proven kleptocrat like Hillary Clinton.

It's the largest case to date for a Justice Department unit that investigates alleged kleptocrats.

It would be very annoying, these evil kleptocrats getting tax breaks to peddle lies designed to ensure that wealth inequality persists and increases.

Moderators, please change globally anywhere where it says «green» to «phony - green» or «attempted but unsuccessful kleptocrat».

Africa's plight, for example, can largely be attributed to theft by kleptocrats with the complicity of major international companies.

This is pretty much what was done in Russia to create Russian kleptocrats.

Trillion after trillion will go to create a financial elite of kleptocrats.

Critics argue this invites corruption; where tax and royalty payments remain concealed, kleptocrats can not be held accountable for pocketing them.

But one and a half - billion dollars were given to the kleptocrat bankers Kolomoiski, who immediately moved it offshore but used his domestic money to finance an anti-Donbas army.

The so - called boom that ensued was a stock - market bubble created by channeling wage withholding into shares of the companies taken over by Chile's kleptocrats.

Wage arrears are getting worse, because as Ukraine approaches the eve of defaulting on its $ 10 + billion London debt, kleptocrats and business owners are jumping ship.

«This enables criminals, kleptocrats, and others looking to hide ill - gotten proceeds to access the financial system anonymously.

Debtor economies are directed to sell to euro - kleptocrats — on terms financed by banks, so that interest charges on the deal absorb all the profits, leaving governments without much income tax.

In contrast to IMF loans to support the kleptocrats» banks and new Cold War asset grabs from the Eastern border provinces with Russia, Ukraine's sale of bonds to Russia's sovereign debt fund and its contracts signed for gas purchases were negotiated by a democratically elected government, at prices that subsidized domestic industry and also household consumption.

If recognized officially (once the kleptocrats have moved their money out at IMF - supported hernia rates), this would raise the country's debt / GDP ratio to the 60 percent threshold making the debt to Russia payable immediately.

«This enables criminals, kleptocrats, and others looking to hide ill - gotten proceeds to access the financial system anonymously.

It is possible that some kind of, dare I say, «revolution» will be needed to purge our burgeoning technocracy of tenured dogmatists and kleptocrats.