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Moneyland
- The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World
- Narrated by: Oliver Bullough
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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"If you want to know why international crooks and their eminently respectable financial advisors walk tall and only the little people pay taxes, this is the ideal book for you. Every politician and moneyman on the planet should read it, but they won't because it's actually about them." (John le Carré, author of A Legacy of Spies)
An investigative journalist's deep dive into the corrupt workings of the world's kleptocrats.
From ruined towns on the edge of Siberia to Bond-villain lairs in London and Manhattan, something has gone wrong. Kleptocracies, governments run by corrupt leaders who prosper at the expense of their people, are on the rise.
Once upon a time, if an official stole money, there wasn't much he could do with it. He could buy himself a new car or build himself a nice house or give it to his friends and family, but that was about it. If he kept stealing, the money would just pile up in his house until he had no rooms left to put it in, or it was eaten by mice.
And then some bankers had a bright idea.
Join the investigative journalist Oliver Bullough on a journey into Moneyland - the secret country of the lawless, stateless super-rich.
Learn how the institutions of Europe and the US have become money-laundering operations, attacking the foundations of many of the world's most stable countries. Meet the kleptocrats. Meet their awful children. And find out how heroic activists around the world are fighting back.
This is the story of wealth and power in the 21st century. It isn't too late to change it.
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- D. Juschka
- 2022-09-16
Most despairing book I’ve ever read
Well written and informative you’ll come away with the knowledge there is absolutely nothing that can stop the obscenely wealthy as finance, politicians and governments, legal systems and media are all part of money land. So regular people must necessarily submit to the horror imposed on them by trump, Putin, Musk - the ultra rich. This book shouldn’t be read by those feeling suicidal as it offers up the view there is absolutely no hope for any of us in the face of the obscenely rich.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-10-06
Excellent
Simply excellent. Well researched, fascinating and quite scary. Can’t wait for your next book. Thanks
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- R.H.
- 2023-01-24
Well researched and described (albeit a bit one-sided) overview of this topic
Well researched and described (albeit a bit one-sided) overview of this topic. Makes the unsubstantiated assertion that wealth would be better spent by governments than by individuals.
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