Within a week or so of losing his election, Schroeder managed to land a job and not worsen the German unemployment rate. He works for Putin now and is in charge of the new pipeline project he helped make happen while in office. It just doesn't get any more corrupt than this.

Putin is now out to buy Donald Evans, former Commerce Secretary to help cover the tracks of the Yokos confiscation and the imprisonment of its owner. I hope Evans tell Putin to take a hike.

Maybe Marx was right. The capitalist really will sell you the rope that you can use to hang him. I only wish we wouldn't sell it so cheaply.