I\u2019ve been meaning to comment on this for a week or two now (ever since the ninth or tenth escalation \u2013 I\u2019ve lost track \u2013 of the Greek debt crisis began last month), but, since Reuters was kind enough to provide the photo below in this\u00a0story\u00a0from earlier today, it seemed like a good time to offer a few thoughts on obesity and bailouts.<\/p>\n
Of course, I know nothing about Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos in general or about what kind of a job he\u2019s been doing in trying to keep the Greek government from defaulting on its debt and plunging all the world into another Lehman-style financial market meltdown, but, in a world where perceptions are very important, it seems it would help things along a bit if the top finance official of a spendthrift nation being bailed out after years of profligacy they kept hidden from the rest of the world wasn\u2019t\u00a0morbidly obese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"