BEg2 chapter 8 these are real things

[Joseph Tracy]

Thanks Maxine and Michael for this valuable https thingy
But the news ain’t all good. Just checking  out the international  bribe payers index and shocked to find America is getting its pants beat off by euro snobs like Holland, Belgium and Switzerland. Hoping Biden will turn that around. At least we are in the 8+ range so only .8 points to go to take the lead. Go USA! 

On the home front I think we’re doing fine, pretty much legalized it with Citizens United. I mean if the good Citizens of the USA put their hearts and prayers into it, nobody can beat us. Corruption Now! America First! Me, a close 2nd! Movin on up!

> On Dec 13, 2021, at 12:06 PM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> “An offshore angle, with more dimensions than angles are supposed to
> have,”
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> 
> Nice
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> 
> “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
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> 
> “ its companion list the Corrupt Perceptions Index, which rank countries
> around the world for their likelihood of bent behavior,”
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> https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2020
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> 
> 
> 
> “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.
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