News that Henry Paulson held a secret meeting with Goldman Sachs in Russia is not surprising or shocking. It's banal. The only surprising aspect is that the public learned about the meeting.
If you want to have a sage-like understanding of the United States, you need only this mantra: "The system is lawless." Once you view the system as lawless, everything that's occurred and is occurring makes sense.
Only when you cling onto you a superstitious belief that we live in a nation of laws, do the bailouts or secret meetings in Russia seem confusing. Only when you think that there is such a thing as The Law, when Wall Street is involved, does a secret meeting between Goldman Sachs and Henry Paulson shock, awe, and surprise.
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