Currency Wars: How Forged Money is the New Weapon of Mass Destruction

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'Cooley reveals that the extent of bogus money in circulation is unknown; that every year the authorities seize hundreds of millions of counterfeit US dollars worldwide; and at least 10 percent of Euro coins are reckoned fakes....' Acknowledgements. List of illustrations. Introduction. One: Royal Charm, Smoking Dragon. Two: Middle East Dimensions. Three: Eastern Forgers, Western Helpers. Four: The Ancient Black Art of Money Forgery. Five: Benjamin Franklin versus King George: America’s Financial Birth Pangs. Six: Soft versus Hard Money: Revolution and Consequences. Seven: Drivin’ Old Dixie Down: The American Civil War and the Birth of the Greenback. Eight: Britain’s Goal: Undermine the Kaiser’s Economy. Nine: Forgers, Fraudsters and Fascists: The Weimar Years. Ten: Portugal: Clever Crook Empowers Durable Dictator. Eleven: Stalin’s Dollars: Biting the Hand That Feeds You. Twelve: Hitler’s Counterfeit Campaign: The Lessons of the Second World War. Thirteen: Covert Action versus Stabilization: From Vietnam to Iraq. Notes. Bibliography. Index.