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And so the tragicomic becomes surreal. Yesterday's news about the departure of the head of the debt management agency, Spyros
Papanicolaou, was somewhat of a yawner, until we realized that his
replacement would be none other than Petros Christodoulou, who until
today was head of Private Banking and Group Treasury at the National
Bank of Greece (reporting directly to the CEO of the NBG Tamvakakis),
as can be seen on the org chart below. Yet was is oddest, is that Mr.
Christodoulou worked not only as head of derivatives at JP Morgan but also held comparable posts at Credit Suisse, and... wait for it, Goldman Sachs... Uh, say what?

Petros Christodoulou, born 1960, is the General Manager of Treasury, Global Markets and Private Banking. Before joining the Bank in 1998, he worked in various positions in Global Markets for Credit Suisse First
Boston and for Goldman Sachs. Additionally, at JPMorgan he led the
derivatives desk, followed by the short-term interest-rate trading and
emerging markets division in London as Managing Director. He is a
member of the Investment Committee of EH and the Foundation for
Economic and Industrial Research. He holds a BSc from the Athens School
of Commerce and Economics and an MBA in International Financial Markets
from Columbia University.

But, but, we thought it was all Goldman Sachs' fault for annihilating Greece? Wasn't it all Goldman's fault for fully (not) disclosing the terms of its nearly decade worth of swaps, which
apparently were obvious to Risk magazine but oh so incomprehensible to
Eurostat. Although it may all be good - it appears that Greece has
found a new enemy. Reuters now reports that Greek opposition
lawmakers said on Thursday that Germans should pay reparations for
their World War Two occupation of Greece before criticising the country
over its yawning fiscal deficits.

The fact that Greece's survival is now reliant on Germany's goodwill, seems to be lost on everyone.

We can not wait for the next installment in this ever more fascinating soap opera.