Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World

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by Adam LeBor

Vossische Zeitung newspaper, 130

  Vulture funds, 260

  W

  W. A. Harriman bank, 144

  Wall Street, 1929 crash of, 10

  Wall Street Journal, on BIS-Argentine dispute, 261

  Wallenberg, Jacob, 74, 116–117, 197

  Wallenberg, Marcus, 74, 116–118, 192

  Wallenberg, Raoul, 74

  War, banks and, 29–30

  “War and Economics: Spanish Civil War Finances Revisited” (Martín-Aceña, Ruiz, and Pons), 55

  Warburg, Eric, 150, 151, 176, 197–198

  Warburg, Freddie, 160

  Warburg, Paul, 18, 36

  Warburg, Sigmund, 151, 195

  Washington Post, on Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, 256

  Watson, Thomas, 105, 109–110, 144

  Weber, Ernst, 87, 89–91

  Weekes, Lisa, 261, 270

  Weidemann, Jens, 263

  Weiser, Felix, 60

  Weitz, John, 7

  West Germany, 167, 182, 188

  White, Harry Dexter, 95, 96, 121–123, 141–142

  White, William, 228, 238, 244, 259

  William III, King of England, 29

  Williamson, David, 119

  Wilson, Woodrow, 32

  Winant, John Gilbert, 73, 82

  Wolff, Julius, 31

  Wood, Kingsley, 89

  Woods, Sam, 161–162

  World Bank, 121, 139, 257

  Worsthorne, Peregrine, 4, 162

  Y

  Yap, Micronesia, 68

  Young, Owen D., 9, 18, 140

  Young Plan (1929), xviii, 12–13, 41, 192

  Z

  Zeiss lens company, 156

  Zhou Xiaochuan, xi, 261

  Zijlstra, Jelle, 171–172, 193–194, 206

  Zyklon B, 104

  About the Author

  Szabolcs Dudas

  Adam LeBor is an author, journalist, and literary critic based in Budapest. He writes for The Economist, the Times (London), Monocle, and numerous other publications, and also reviews for the New York Times. He has been a foreign correspondent since 1991, covering the collapse of Communism and the Yugoslav wars, and has worked in more than thirty countries. He is the author of seven nonfiction books, including the ground-breaking Hitler’s Secret Bankers, and two novels.

  www.adamlebor.com• Twitter: @adamlebor

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