{"id":5269,"date":"2015-02-05T06:24:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T11:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5269"},"modified":"2015-02-05T06:24:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T11:24:20","slug":"have-a-little-faith-in-blotto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5269","title":{"rendered":"Have A Little Faith In Blotto"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"posttitle\"><a class=\"entry-title\" title=\"Have A Little Faith In Blotto\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/have-a-little-faith-in-blotto\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Have A Little Faith In Blotto<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>What, Greece again? Sorry!! But I see a lot of things flash by that make me want to say something. Today it\u2019s the alleged 180 that Syriza made on debt reduction, before that it was their alleged kow-towing to Brussels on Russia sanctions, and tomorrow it\u2019ll be something else again. It\u2019s all media formatted bite-size and pre-chewed chunks, but the Greece-Troika stand-off is anything but.<\/p>\n<p>I have a ton and a half of respect for David Stockman, who\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/davidstockmanscontracorner.com\/history-in-the-balance-why-greece-must-repudiate-its-banker-bailout-debts-and-exit-the-euro\/\" target=\"new\">earlier this week wrote<\/a>:\u00a0<i>\u2018Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has the weight of history on his shoulders\u2019<\/i>, but I\u2019m sorry, I can\u2019t agree with that, Dave. Yanis, who I only know through the occasional recent email exchange, if he has any weight on his shoulders, it\u2019s that of the Greek people. And it\u2019s the weight of their future, not their history.<\/p>\n<p>Stockman also hints that Greece should leave the euro, and perhaps that is true, I would certainly tend to agree, but that doesn\u2019t mean, even if Syriza agrees too, that today is the day they should go public with it. A Grexit may even be their endgame, but focusing on it now could well backfire. After all, a Grexit could come in many different shapes.<\/p>\n<p>I have confidence that Varoufakis and his people have thought this through, and thoroughly, and that they have a \u2013 longer term \u2013 strategy that not many people will be able to comprehend. A quality all good strategies have. And the other side has no such strategy: they have never entertained the idea that they could lose, so why strategize? Goliath never figured he needed one either.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have A Little Faith In Blotto What, Greece again? Sorry!! But I see a lot of things flash by that make me want to say something. Today it\u2019s the alleged 180 that Syriza made on debt reduction, before that it was their alleged kow-towing to Brussels on Russia sanctions, and tomorrow it\u2019ll be something else [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[95,195,200,284,1167,2598,2236,2868,2921],"class_list":["post-5269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-brussels","tag-debt","tag-default","tag-european-union","tag-greece","tag-grexit","tag-syriza","tag-troika","tag-yanis-varoufakis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5270,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions\/5270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}