Epstein Secrets

the banks' cost of capital and made leverage more attractive. Investment and commercial banks became integrated as the old division imposed by the Glass-Steagall act was abolished. Investment banking was no longer just about broking (conducting transactions in return for commissions) or giving advic

ten mature economies rose from 200% of GDP in 1995 to 300% in 2008 (see chart 1 for a breakdown by country). There were even more startling rises in Iceland and Ireland, where debt-to-GDP ratios reached 1,200% and 700% respectively. The burdens proved too much for those two countries, plunging them into

It was a total vanishing act.” | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r.indd 257 @ 9/30/16 8:13AM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019745 CHAPTER 25 Through the Looking Glass There’s definitely a deep state. Trust me, I’ve been there. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2014 Wa WAITING to hear back from Kucherena’s office, I arran

lso had such a capability. The Silk Road founder, Ross Ulbricht, discovered to his distress that his Tor software did not make his computer server in Iceland invis- ible. According to a former top official in the Justice Department, the NSA was able to locate it by cracking the Tor software (Ulbricht is cu

cked into the capsule hotel for 4 hours told me, “It was a total vanishing act.” HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020349 198 CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Through the Looking Glass “There’s definitely a deep state. Trust me, I’ve been there” —Edward Snowden in Moscow While waiting to hear back from Kucherena’s office, I arrange

n—I don’t want to, and I can’t,” he later explained. “It’s not my job. It’s not the relationship. Iam a journalist.” Although Gellman suspected that Iceland might be the foreign government in question, Snowden, as it turned, had not ever contacted the consulate of Iceland while he was in Hong Kong. “We ha