Butler to the World
The Book the Oligarchs Don't Want You to Read - How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything
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Oliver Bullough
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Oliver Bullough
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2022 New Yorker Best Books of the Year, Long-listed
2022 Amazon.com Best Books of the Year, Long-listed
This program is read by the author.
In his forceful follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough unravels the dark secret of how Britain placed itself at the center of the global offshore economy and at the service of the worst people in the world.
The Suez Crisis of 1956 was the nadir of Britain's twentieth century, the moment when the once-superpower was bullied into retreat. "Great Britain has lost an empire and not yet found a role," said Dean Acherson, a former US secretary of state. Acheson's line has entered into the canon of great quotations: but it was wrong. Britain had already found a role. The leaders of the world just hadn't noticed it yet.
Butler to the World reveals how Britain came to assume its role as the center of the offshore economy. Written polemically, but studded with witty references to the butlers of popular fiction, it demonstrates how so many elements of modern Britain have been put at the service of the world's oligarchs.
The Biden administration is putting corruption at the heart of its foreign policy, and that means it needs to confront Britain's role as the foremost enabler of financial crime and ill behavior. This audiobook lays bare how London has deliberately undercut U.S. regulations for decades, and calls into question the extent to which Britain can be considered a reliable ally.
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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- Jeffrey L
- 2023-06-28
The most frustrating and best read in a while.
Frustrating for the money laundering, not frustrating for the book. This was well written, exceedingly well researched, a valuable read-I read moneyland, none of this was a surprise.
What did surprise me was that the author is actually quite good as a narrator. I imagine he’s busy enough, but if he changed career I think he’d do rather well voicing audiobooks.
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- R.H.
- 2023-03-27
Excellent (even though I disagree with a lot of the author’s politics)
I read and enjoyed this author’s book called Moneyland. This one has a similar feel but mostly focused specifically on Britton’s place in shaping international finance and law. Some solid background history delivered in a not so dry way. Good overview on Britton’s role in financial innovation through things like “eurodollars.”
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- aimee mckinney
- 2022-08-18
Essential! Especially for Canadian
We need unexplained wealth orders the world over.
I caught the testimony of Oliver Bullough to the Cullen Commission, which was an inquiry on money laundering into real estate in British Columbia Canada. Oliver, you need to read Cullen’s report, and write a review- also Cayton’s report about the Law Society of BC, and how regulatory bodies become mushy as promoters of that which they are supposed to regulate and police.
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