{"product_id":"the-blood-bankers-tales-from-the-global-underground-economy","title":"The Blood Bankers: Tales from the Global Underground Economy","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom 1970 to 2003  over three trillion dollars$3 000 000 000 000were loaned to developing countries by the West. Yet the gap between rich and poor is worse than ever. What happened? Where did all that money go? A financial insider  Jim Henry looks unsparingly at the snarl of transactions  often legal but usually immoral  that resulted in the rich getting richer and the poor  poorer. Like tentacles on a vast octopus  the firsthand investigations in The Blood Bankers all lead to one core. A financial detective of sorts  journalist Jim Henry analyzes a range of scandals  including the looting of the Philippines by the Marcos family  corrupt lending in South America  and the financing of Al Qaeda. 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 globalizations dark sidethe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44985817923637,"sku":"ByrdShop_1568582544","price":33.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781568582542.jpg?v=1770872666","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-blood-bankers-tales-from-the-global-underground-economy","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}