Cocaine Cowboys

Cocaine Cowboys. How the drugs transformed Miami into something that looks a lot like Panama today. "All these banks", says one of the protagonists (which also tells you all you need to know about people like Eisenmann getting into shady banking in Miami in the eighties). "All this construction", says another.

Panama real estate comes crashing down with boom

We were already getting used to construction workers dying because they kept falling off these skyscrapers because the developers are too cheap to install proper safety measures, but the people behind Rivage Tower have come up with a new variant on the theme: Launch large pieces of metal on cars!