Okay, so the Saudis are holding an economic conference.  Just about everybody, and I mean everybody, has withdrawn from the conference.

The Saudi conference, known as “Davos in the desert,” is part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s plan to transform the oil-dependent economy.

JP Morgan (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon and the heads of America’s top investment firms — Blackrock (BLK) and Blackstone — are among the leading figures who have decided to stay away. Top executives at Ford (F) and MasterCard (MA) have also pulled out, and Google (GOOGL) said Tuesday that the head of its cloud computing business wouldn’t participate in the event either.

And there’s a much longer list.

But others are going.  First name on the short list?

• US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin

Do you wanna know my theory about why he’s going?  Because the United States is a sniveling weak little nation with bozos in charge.  That’s why.

How serious can we be about human rights if we are scared to withdraw from a silly little conference where somebody is liable to come home in pieces?

Mnunchin and his silly wife will go and kiss butt and remind everybody about the great management job he did at Sears.

And that he’s goofy.