You conspiracy nuts are amusing. Everything you can't -or refuse to understand- you dismiss as conspiracy. The worst part is that you don't even know the meaning of the word. Anyway...I did not "concede to anything; I speak only the truth and the truth is that the Greek government lied to and deceived the Greek people more than anyone else. Greeks never wanted to abolish the drachma and enter the Eurozone in the first place. In fact, it was Germany that pressured Greece to enter the EMU.Thanas wrote: Goldman Sachs is not a German company. BTW, I posted the very link on this board myself. This does nothing to back up your claim of this being some kind of conspiracy. So thanks to indeed conceding that Greece lied, with the help of a US company.
So you change your argument now? This is not what Goldman Sachs [GS] did though, is it? GS and a handful of Greek government officials "cooked" the books to "reduce Greece's foreign denominated debt" NOT to falsify growth indicators. Which means that you just conceded to my argument that the whole GS deal is inconsequential.Because Greece falsified its economic growth data to get in, not its debt.
You can't even make up your mind about WHAT "Greece" supposedly lied about. I think you need to figure out what YOU want to lie about before you vomit your propaganda.
Goldman Sachs details 2001 Greek derivative trades
These transactions i.e. between Greek officials and GS, reduced Greece's foreign denominated debt in euro terms by 2.367 billion euros and, in turn, decreased Greece's debt as a percentage of GDP by just 1.6%, from 105.3% to 103.7%.
In short, the whole deal with Goldman Sachs was and is of little importance. Germany knew about the bad economic state of Greece and yet it pushed for Greece's entry into the EMU. Why? According to you because "Germany was too idealistic at the time".
What a load of shit. Germans ought to keep their idealism in check; the last time they got carried away by their idealism they gave the world the Third Reich.
p.s
-I never said that Goldman Sachs was a German company.
-I'm done with you. Don't even bother answering.