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by r00fus 5325 days ago
> 3) Banking and Finance. Drug money is the global financial system's liquidity float. It kept Wachovia solvent for nearly a decade.

Wow, I had no idea this level of corruption existed: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-d...

This indicates to me that there might be a strong connection between the prison-industrial-complex and the military-industrial-complex with that connection being drugs. Meanwhile, Big Finance amorally profits from all (including illegal) activity.