by Sam Vaknin Strange, penumbral, characters roam the boardrooms of banks in the countries in transition. Some of them pop up from apparently nowhere, others are very well connected and equipped with the most excellent introductions. They all peddle financial transactions which are too good to be true and often are. In the unctuously perfumed […]

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