Taken together, the articles exposed a dark truth: “Dirty money” — terrorist financing, drug cartel funds, fortunes embezzled from developing nations, the profits from organized crime — flows so freely through the world’s most powerful financial institutions that it has become inextricable from the so-called legitimate economy.

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.

They were talking gombeen politics.

The Moon grows sickly at the sight of day.