Strategic inefficiency. It's planned to look deniable.

Oh dear. So the former asset (i.e. the debt) on the government ledger, becomes a debt in the government's books, being a debt to itself. Net zero. Anything it paid to third parties will be caught back in tax (Panama, Bahamas etc based companies excepted of course).

Hypnotised, like a chicken. He's bluffing......

O.M.Gaaaaark. Seriously? Why not sardines? Why not Brasso? Is there no end to it (he asks rhetorically)?

Maybe they're afraid they'll meet their peons at the golf club midweek.

Are there laws allowing them to own a Canadian? I'm pretty sure there was something in the Old Testament....

Cannibal AI.

I've discovered I absorb audiobooks differently from reading print. I get nuances I missed when reading. Like Harry Potter. The audio book revealed he's a useless tit. His friends do all the heavy lifting. He just surfs their work. Go figure.

Trouble is, he doesn't just "think" it - he believes it will all his being and will never consider not doing all he can to appease his personal value system.