Could it be possible that the Greek government is going to default but just wants as much bailout as it can get before pulling the trigger?

Migeru:

Obviously the Troika doesn't have half a brain between the three of them since they haven't realised this.

getting an invisible hand job can have that effect...

they are pawns. they are gamblers. they are eventual toast, even if they do 'win' this round.

the people want the justice stolen from their/our world.

it's quite the contrast with s/c america huh? where social democracies unite to protect each other from pred-cap instead of lining up for ritual disembowelment_...

i guess italian pols are watching all this very carefully.

...and shuffling off capital to quieter climes.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty