country's currency, you can sink your savings into gold, keeping them safe from inflation. There are something like fifty banks in this small city, and uncounted hordes of private money changers. WORK PERMISSION. All you need to work in Morocco is a job. Most countries put obstacles in the paths of foreigners working within their boundries figuring that one of their own people are being displaced. In Morocco, however, you will not displace a Moor if you work. In the first place very few Moors have the training and background to handle anything except the simplest positions and the pay for these is so low that you would starve on it. In Tangier, in particular, there are for all practical purposes no restrictions on opening a business. There are no income taxes, no property taxes, no corporation taxes, few import or export taxes and those that do exist look as though they will be discontinued and Tangier again declared a free port. By law you need not even give your right name in starting up a corporation. In fact, you need not give any name at all; you can start a corporation for $1000 and use a number if you wish to keep your name a secret. § PRICES. When I first arrived in Tangier I found myself financially embarassed. I had several deals cooking in several places, including Spain, but for the moment I was very short of cash. As a result I fell into a situation that was one of the most interesting I have ever experienced: I lived in the Casbah of Tangier for a period of two or three months. Tangier is divided into two principal sections, the medina, or native quarter, and the modern city. The higher reaches of the medina are the casbah. The modern city is ultra-modern—the medina and particularly the casbah are strictly out of the Arabian Nights. Streets so narrow you can touch the buildings on either side, cobblestones, tiny shops no bigger than a phone booth, so small that the owner must sit outside. Tiny restaurants, sitting possibly six customers at a time, the proprietor, who doubles as chef, squatting out front cooking shish kebab over a charcoal stove. The
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