Probing the Street

Derivatives have many purposes. One is to quietly launder the profits out of one place into another without the niceties of legal authorizations and documents.

The Japanese yen has risen against the US dollar hitting the highest level since the end of the Second World War. The yen climbed as

Credit: Kirsty Wigglesworth/Associated Press. By Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald The National Security Agency is using complex analysis of electronic surveillance, rather than human intelligence,