by John Keefe
I’m upsetting to be ironic, of indubitably; I would never make one think anyone take up offence. But an group of Italian businesses, SOS Impresa , has released its latest annual commentary , and finds that the mob , at least the Italian arm, has fared attractive well in the downturn, making up about seven percent of GDP, and undoubtedly creating a lot of new jobs.
Information of the article comes from the Pecuniary Opportunity s . (You can download SOS Impresa’s retreat , although you will need to remember some Italian to cope any meaning of it.) SOS Impresa was started about 20 years ago by a squad of businessmen in Palermo, Sicily, maddening to restrain the forces of organized misdeed and serving its victims.
The Mafia’s four conduit businesses — drugs, advance-sharking and blackmail, ecomafia (”entrepreneurial activities” such as gambling and counterfeiting) — brought in €135 billion last year (about $190 billion), up about four percent, against a five percent discharge in the Italian control. And after paying for salaries, hideouts, guns and such, SOS Impresa estimates a profit brink of 60 percent! See for yourself:
Click on the delineated for a larger embodiment In periodi di crisi - sostiene il rapporto SOS impresa - i soldi delle mafie, la loro grande liquidità, benché “sporchi” fanno gola. E il settore maggiormente in crescita appare, in tempi di crisi economica e di difficoltà di accesso al credito proprio l’usura che nel 2009 ha toccato un vero e proprio sound : oltre 200 mila commercianti colpiti con un giro di affari dattorno ai 20 miliardi di euro (ma le posizioni debitorie ammontano a circa 600 mila, indice di indebitamenti con più strozzini). (Gravity in the primitive.)
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