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...tiny rock sticking out of the Pacific, well-wired into the world financial system. And the amount of money they harbor around the globe is staggering--as much as $5 trillion, according to the U.S. State Department. The Cayman Islands (pop. 35,000) has more than $800 billion on deposit--fully one-fifth as much as the entire U.S. banking system. And those Cayman deposits are swelling by an estimated $120 billion a year. Not all offshore money is linked to crime or terrorism. Much of it belongs to wealthy people who are avoiding taxes in ways that often...
...Nortel Networks a year ago, you would now have stock worth $82. If instead you spent $1,000 on Budweiser and drank it, you would have not just the obvious reason to smile but a subtle one too. On the basis of a nickel-per-can deposit, the empties would be worth $91. How's that for a New Economy slap in the face...
...Palestinian minds, President Bush's statement was empty - a check drawn on a non-existent bank account with no credit or deposit. I think President Bush was simply trying to give political cover to the Saudis and Egyptians and Jordanians to join the anti-terrorism coalition by assuring them that the U.S. is still keeping their concerns in mind...
Even in cooperative countries, bin Laden can use national borders to stay one step ahead of investigators. "It only takes five minutes to deposit 1 million French francs in a Dutch account and another five minutes to transfer that to an account in Britain," warned a French parliamentary report on terrorist funding. But "for the judge investigating the origins and movement of that money, it will take six months to get a court warrant authorizing inspection of the account in the Netherlands, a year to get one in Britain, six months more for clearance in Switzerland--all to discover that...
...shows that an unidentified, unarmed black male passed the teller a deposit slip with “give me all your money” written...