Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments to the First Edition vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Prologue 11
6. The World According to Meyer Lansky
7. Capital Flight in the JetAge 19
8. Eurodollars and Nonsense 31
9. Red Iuk and Black Gold 47
10. Sheikhs in Sombreros? 60
11. Parables of Peculiar Talents
12. Putting the Money Changers Bak in the Temple 77
13. Of Dope, Debt,and Dictatorship 92
14. Playing Russian Roulette with the Polish Debt 106
15. Paradise Lost? 118
16. What Went Down with the Belgrano? 134
17. Born-Again Banking 150
18. High Finance in Cocaine Country
19. On coca-collateral and the Andean Debt 165
20. Country of Convenience 186
21. What gets Washed in the Pacific Basin?
22. Some Like It Hot 199
23. Binds of a Feather... 216
24. What Flies into the Cuckoo's nest?
25. Swiss Contributions to Economic Development 231
26. Good Neighbor Switzerland 250
27. The Grim Reaper
28. Economics for the Moral Majority 274
29. Buddy, Can Non Spare a Billion? 285
30. Whats's Better in the Bahamas? 298
31. Ghost Companies and Haunted Banks 310
32. Strange Harvest
33. Capital Punishment 327
34. Taking Stock 347
35. Flight of Fancy 368
36. Postscript: The Permanent Bull Economy 381
37. Afterword On Whom the Toll Tells 402
38. Final Acknowledgments 444
39. Notes 446
40. Bibliography and Sources 516
41. Index 521