Here’s a question: Amidst the enormous surge in stock markets all over the world last year, which country was the most attractive to international finance capital? Was it the country with the most productive manufacturing base? Or one with a highly innovative technology sector? Or, perhaps, a country with a thriving retail industry?
If you chose any of the above, you guessed wrong. The country that proved the greatest magnet for investors looking for super-high returns on their capital was … Egypt!
This is good news for those looking for easy money in the markets. In selecting among competing opportunities, there is no need to pour over corporate balance sheets, PE ratios and 200-day moving averages, or study complex technical charts. Just find out where police are shooting down protestors, where prisons are packed with innocent people, and where kangaroo courts are condemning hundreds to the gallows. That’s where the big money is to be made.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/01/03/pers-j03.html
If the oligarchs get their way, this may become the model for the future of nation states as they transition to market states. Buy low, sell high.
Not a pretty picture.
Doesn't this also remind you of Ukraine? Note well that the US is supporting both regimes.
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