01416nam a2200133 4500 Henry, James S Bradley and Bill The Blood Bankers: Tales from the Global Underground Economy United Kingdom: Basic Books, 2005. 464p. 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 globalization's dark side of 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. Money laundering, Drug, Capital flight, Bank, Weapons, Tax evasion, Corruption, Smuggling http://www.amazon.com/The-Blood-Bankers-Underground-Economy/dp/1560257156 CF 54 54