The link below is to an article worth reading - written by a former member of the first Bush Adminstration (don't hold that against her)
Narco-Dollars for Dummies
"How the Money Works" in the Illicit Drug Trade
http://www.silverbearcafe.com/...
No snips - go to the link and read the article itself - a multi-part summary of how drug money influences far more than we realize.
Drug money is often the gorilla in the room that NOBODY dares talk abut - though occasionally you will see some mention of its influence.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
More on Fitts
Catherine Austin Fitts is a former managing director and member of the board of directors of Dillon Read & Co, Inc, a former Assistant Secretary of Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner in the first Bush Administration, and the former President of The Hamilton Securities Group, Inc. She is the President of Solari, Inc, an investment advisory firm. Solari provides risk management services to investors through Sanders Research Associates in London.
more from her:
http://www.youtube.com/...
don't be put off by the source - listen to her message.