Spirit Cooking 2: Ukrainian Boogaloo
The Clintons get the UNholy band back together.
Last week was UN week in New York. It’s sort of like Fleet Week, only instead of cute guys in sailor suits the city fills up with rich, middle-aged sex pests looking to plunder nations.
The plunderer-du-jour of course is the angry green homunculus from Kiev.
He was in town to “wine and dine” American billionaires.
“Investing in Ukraine has to be good for you and good for us. I understand capitalism,” the Ukrainian president told what was described to me as a “star-struck” group of billionaire financiers, plus Henry Kissinger, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, and celebrity chef José Andrés. He was seated near former mayor and financial data entrepreneur Mike Bloomberg, worth an estimated $96 billion; Ken Griffin of the Citadel investment empire, worth around $35 billion; Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google; Jonathan Gray, the president of private equity powerhouse Blackstone and likely successor to Stephen Schwarzman; Barry Sternlicht, of Starwood Capital, and Bill Ackman, …
