You have to hand it to him, ever the outsider, Paul O’Neill does have a remarkable knack of uttering the jarring truths which those amoral sophisticates in the salons of the Globalized Plutocracy wish to remain unspoken. Having told us last year that American workers should not be asked to bail out a failed foreign political class in Argentina, he now has the temerity to tell their Brazilian brethren that they can only expect help if the monies do not all mysteriously vanish from local accounts, to nestle safely and anonymously amid the verdant uplands of Switzerland. What was he … Continue reading The Carlyle Group Cleans Up