Billionairie Smugglers?

Posted on June 16th, 2009 by in Economics & Politics

In a wild and crazy financial story (no… really!), two Japanese citizens were caught by Italian border patrol agents while on a train at Chiasso headed to Switzerland with an unusual amount of foreign bonds. To be clear, by “foreign bonds” in this case I mean American. And by “an unusual amount”, I mean $134,500,000,000 [...]

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