Table of contents : 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