Tales from the Global Under­ground Econ­omy
by James S. Henry
2005, Thunder’s Mouth Press
(First pub­lished in 2003 by Four Walls Eight Win­dows)
ISBN 1560257156
417 pages, illustrated.

Pub­lisher Com­ments:
Like ten­ta­cles on a vast octo­pus, the first­hand inves­ti­ga­tions in The Blood Bankers all lead to one core. A finan­cial detec­tive of sorts, inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ist Jim Henry ana­lyzes a range of scan­dals, includ­ing the loot­ing of the Philip­pines by the Mar­cos fam­ily and the finan­cial col­lapse of nations through­out the devel­op­ing world. A rogues’ gallery of inter­na­tional crim­i­nals owes its exis­tence to the dra­matic growth of the under­ground global econ­omy over the last two decades. Our world is being reshaped, often in sin­is­ter fash­ion, by wide open cap­i­tal mar­kets and an inter­na­tional bank­ing net­work that exists to laun­der hun­dreds of bil­lions of dol­lars in ill-gotten gains. Here is an inside look at globalizatio’s dark side—the new high growth global mar­kets for influence-peddling, cap­i­tal flight, money laun­der­ing, weapons, drugs, tax eva­sion, child labor, ille­gal immi­gra­tion, and other forms of transna­tional crime.

Fea­tures first­hand inves­ti­ga­tions into the Third World activ­i­ties of Cit­i­group, Chase/Morgan, Lehman Broth­ers, and others.

Fore­word by for­mer U.S. Sen­a­tor Bill Bradley.

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