Loretta Napoleoni

Loretta Napoleoni

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Loretta Napoleoni, a former Fulbright scholar at Johns Hopkins
University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
and Rotary Scholar at the London School of Economics, is a leading
expert on international terrorism who has worked as a consultant to
European national banks and a financial columnist for numerous
European daily papers. As chairman of the countering terrorism
financing group for the Club de Madrid, Loretta Napoleoni brought
heads of state from around the world together to create a new strategy
for combating the financing of terror networks. She is the author of
Terror, Inc.: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks,
Insurgent Iraq: Al Zarqawi and the New Generation, and
Rogue Economics: Capitalism's New Reality (April 2008).

Blog Entries by Loretta Napoleoni

Bear Stearns and Carlyle Debacles Are a "Modern-Day Greek Tragedy"

Posted March 17, 2008 | 10:33 PM (EST)

The collapse of Carlyle Capital and the temporary rescue of Bear Stearns may go down in history as the key events signaling the end of the 'roaring nineties' (which lasted into the 21st century), nearly two decades of easy money, cheap credit and soaring global debt. Exceptional events -- such...

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Rogue Finance

Posted February 8, 2008 | 06:11 PM (EST)

Globalized high finance has been shaken by yet another scandal. Société Générale (SocGen), the second-largest French bank, is in serious trouble due to the wild speculative transactions of rogue trader Jerome Kerviel. But this weekend in Tokyo, the ministers of finance and central bankers of the G7 will discuss another...

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Hamas' Democracy

Posted February 28, 2006 | 11:01 PM (EST)

Hamas's history is deeply interlinked to the last stretch of Arafat's life and to his sudden death. It was the disappearance of Arafat's secret treasury (estimated between $700 million to 2 billion) that paved the way to Hamas' recent victory in the Palestinian elections. Everybody remembers the Fatah leadership's desperate,...

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