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Preface PART I: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY ARRANGEMENTS, MONEY AND POLITICSThe Name of the Game is Money A System is How the Pieces Fit 'The GreatestMonetary Agreement in History' 'The Gnomes of Zurich' Play in the LargestMarket in the World Gold - How Much is a Barbarous Relic Worth? The Dollarand Coca Cola are Brand Names Radio Luxembourg and the EuroDollar Market areOffshore Stations They Invented Money So They Could Have Inflation REMEMBER:the Forecasts that the Oil Price Would Reach $65 a Barrel The Three D's:Disinflation, Deflation, and Depression Deadbeats on a Treadmill CentralBankers Read Election Returns After They Read Balance Sheet Monetary Reform -Where Do the Problems Go When They're Assumed Away? PART II: THE COSTS OF ONEHUNDRED NATIONAL MONIES The Money Game and the Level Playing FieldUnderground Economies and the 'Shrinkage of Government' Cross Border TaxAvoidance Banking on the Wire Zeros, Swaps, Options: The Biggest FinancialRevolution Ever If You Won the Lottery, Which Stock Market Would You Buy WhyAre Multinational Firms Mostly American? The Sun is Setting on the 'RisingSun' China: The 800 Pound Gorilla Zlotys, Rubles, and Leks TransitionalEconomies Fitting the Pieces Once Again Index