Was Former Treasury Secretary Paul ONeills initial approach, refusing to bailout Argentina, any better?
GP: That’s just ratcheting up the threat. Paul O’Neill wasn’t going let Citigroup take a drenching. No way. LO: How does your book, “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy” shed light on this issue? GP: The value of the book is that I go through documents, with Stiglitz, to find out what this stuff means. Then you can you make up your mind. You don’t need my views. If you want views, go read Arianna Huffington. The point of my book is to give you real ammo that you don’t get in the US press. The book is important to me because it’s the only way I can get this information to Americans, since the mainstream media won’t touch this stuff. It’s interesting. I’m mainstream in the Continent, but in America, I’m the Unabomber. LO: It seems like no matter how much hard work you put in, how much you uncover about what’s really happening behind the scenes, unethical corporate interests still have undue influence on our society. How frustrated do you get? How do you find the motivation to keep digging?
