BEg2 chapter 8 these are real things

[Michael Bailey]

“An offshore angle, with more dimensions than angles are supposed to
 have,”


Nice



“has not escaped Maxine’s attention. She has found herself consulting
current  updates of the always useful Bribe Payers Index and”

https://www.transparency.org/en/publications/bribe-payers-index-2011


“ its companion list the Corrupt Perceptions Index, which rank countries
around the world for their likelihood of bent behavior,”


https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2020




“and hashslingrz seems to have dodgy linkages all over the map,
particularly  in the Mideast. Lately she’s been picking up certain tells
for the well-known Islamic allergy to anything interest-bearing. “

Ezra Pound would have liked that - “Usura Contra Naturam Est”


“Bond activity is rare to nonexistent. Instead of selling short, there is a
tendency to go to elaborate sharia-compliant workarounds  like arboon
auctions”

https://wiki.islamicfinance.de/index.php?title=Arbun

Jesuitical hairsplitting allows Arabic traders to charge interest and sell
short by calling it something else. Letter of the law while ignoring the
spirit.