The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world.

Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources.

While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo's reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros' network of "non-profit foundations" in the Balkans.

Legal and illegal activities had become inextricably intertwined.

Global poverty is an "input" on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.

Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the world population.

Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts ("pure theory") and facts without theory ("applied economics").