[FPSPACE] A bit off topic, but the rammifications are relevant...

[Jens Kieffer-Olsen]

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Pesavento [mailto:pjp961 at svol.net]
Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 12:08 AM

 [snip]

> It appears that Putin attempted, before and during the height of the late
2008 economic crisis, to severely damage the USA
> economically (beyond what was happening already) by dumping Russia's
entire shareload of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac stock,
> and concurrently attempted to get the PRC to do the same, at the same
time. 

 I notice this little gem written by Deborah Solomon in June 2008 on a Wall
Street Journal blog:
 
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2008/06/30/you-say-potato-i-say-sovereign-wea
lth-fund/tab/article/

 To quote from it:
 "Paulson, in Russia in part to try and direct some of those dollars towards
the U.S., ..."

 Now, why would Henry Paulson have V. V. Putin invest Russia's
government-owned or controlled assets
 in the USA in late June 2008?

 Was it a piece of good advice that Mr. Paulson offered the Russian Prime
Minister? Or could
 it have been a strategy that backfired?

--
Jens Kieffer-Olsen
Slagelse, Denmark
 

  

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