Epstein Secrets

r and his boss Richard Nixon carried on the violent tradition that spanned the breadth of the loth century and continues in the 21st — for example, Venezuela in 2002 (failed) and Honduras in 2009 (successful). Where possible, such as in Guatemala in 1954 and Brazil in 1964, coups were the preferred method

inary chain of events: • General Motors, the world's largest company, went bust. • Washington Mutual became the world's largest bank failure. • Lehman Brothers became the world's largest bankruptcy ever. • The damage quickly spread around the world, shattering global confidence in the fundamental structur

nsumers. The Economist =stimates that the average U.S. motorist could save $800. But economies heavily relia=t on oil revenues — Nigeria, Russia and Venezuela for example (0=94 will suffer dearly. So may heavily indebted oil companies. For every $1 drop in the pri=e of crude, Venezuela is estimated to lose

mon practice to make decisions that gooses the stock price prior to compensation review. Case in point: the top five executives of =ear Stearns and Lehman Brothers received more than $2 billion is stock options and cash compensati=n in the last two years including settlements when their companies collapsed:40=A

er chairman of Woolworths Ltd., the country’s largest retailer. Died March 3 in Sydney of complications from surgery. Hugo Chavez, 58. President of Venezuela since 1998, who used the country’s oil wealth to help the poor, nationalized corporations and dismissed foes as puppets of U.S. imperialism. Died Ma

anaging director at Cantor Fitzgerald, he worked at Wasserstein Perella & Co., where he advised clients to sell Enron prior to its collapse, and at Lehman Brothers, where he warned colleagues in 2007 that the bank had taken on “far, far too much risk” by betting on the U.S. housing market. Died of an aneurysm o