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To: TobagoJack who wrote (14100)	1/28/2002 10:44:28 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

Will throwing money around means the Brazilianization of the world? Following my last posting I am now trying to test my assumptions. Throwing money around, either to buy social peace or business as usual, will mean that we will see many more, symbiotic relationships between business and government. The 'industrial military complex' of Cold War days. Or the space race to get to the Moon before the Russians did. Which leads to to conclude that Enron may be already a sign of things to come! There is a dark outcome. That I call the Brazilianization of the world's economy QUOTE 2-"This chapter studies the connection between drug dealing and private banking by focusing on one fascinating case, the tale of a major American dealer who came to rest in Brazil with the help of leading lawyers, bankers, lobbyists, officials and businessmen who'd cut their teeth on flight banking. His helpers along the way included some of Brazil's best-known lawyers, a former President of Brazil's Supreme Court, a Brazilian Federal Deputy, Pepsi-Cola do Brazil's country manager, former President Jose Sarney, a former Brazilian Ambassador and business partner of Dr. Henry Kissinger, several principles in the BCCI bank scandal, and Adnan Khashoggi. We couldn't ask for a better example of international banking's darker side. UNQUOTE