Hot Money and the Politics of Debt 9780773572072

A ball of hot money rolls around the world. It seeks anonymity and political refuge. It dodges taxes and sidesteps curre

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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
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