Hot Money and the Politics of Debt.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments to the First Edition -- Introduction -- Prologue -- PART ONE: The World According to Meyer Lansky -- 1 Capital Flight in the Jet Age -- 2 Eurodollars and Nonsense -- 3 Red Ink and Black Gold -- 4 Sheikhs in Sombreros? -- PART TWO: Parables of Peculiar Talents -- 5 Putting the Money Changers Back in the Temple -- 6 Of Dope, Debt, and Dictatorship -- 7 Playing Russian Roulette with the Polish Debt -- 8 Paradise Lost? -- 9 What Went Down with the Belgrano? -- 10 Born-Again Banking -- PART THREE: High Finance in Cocaine Country -- 11 On Coca-Collateral and the Andean Debt -- 12 Country of Convenience -- PART FOUR: What Gets Washed in the Pacific Basin? -- 13 Some Like It Hot -- 14 Birds of a Feather ... -- PART FIVE: What Flies into the Cuckoo's Nest? -- 15 Swiss Contributions to Economic Development -- 16 Good neighbor Switzerland -- PART SIX: The Grim Reaper -- 17 Economics for the Moral Majority -- 18 Buddy, Can You Spare a Billion? -- 19 What's Better in the Bahamas? -- 20 Ghost Companies and Haunted Banks -- PART SEVEN: Strange Harvest -- 21 Capital Punishment -- 22 Taking Stock -- 23 Flight of Fancy -- Postscript: The Permanent Bull Economy -- Afterword: On Whom the Toll Tells -- Final Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography and Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

A ball of hot money rolls around the world. It seeks anonymity and political refuge. It dodges taxes and sidesteps currency controls. It rolls through offshore shell companies and secret bank accounts, phoney charities and fraudulent religious foundations.

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