1.   A stiff dose of American competition, innovation and enterprise is not something that only global financiers should want to see in Europe.

2.   Global financiers are given the green light for ever-greater concentrations of power.

3.   Mahathir, a relentless critic of the West, drew world attention last October when he delivered a strident denunciation of George Soros and the fraternity of global financiers.

4.   The IMF and World Bank, meanwhile, are taking steps to counter their reputations as old-boy clubs of global financiers.

5.   Among other players is Soros Private Equity Partners, a unit of the fund managed by global financier George Soros.

6.   Global financiers are snapping up the greenback as investor fears have melted away with the last pockets of al-Qaida resistance.

7.   He said it was not fair that Thailand had to go to war alone against the global financiers.

8.   Ken Courtis of Deutsche Bank Asia is nervous about the new euphoria among global financiers.