Moneyland, Oliver Bullough
Moneyland, Oliver Bullough
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Moneyland
The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World

Author: Oliver Bullough

Narrator: Oliver Bullough

Unabridged: 9 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/07/2019


Synopsis

"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

This program is read by the author.

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 that 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 superrich.

Learn how the institutions of Europe and the United States 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.

About Oliver Bullough

Oliver Bullough is the author of non-fiction books on Russian history and politics: The Last Man in Russia, and Let Our Fame Be Great, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in the UK and won the Cornelius Ryan in the US. Bullough is a writer for the Guardian, and his work has been published by British GQ, The New York Times, and the BBC. He lives in London.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Maru on February 06, 2019

This book is quite outstanding and I cannot recommend it highly enough. I say this from the perspective of a qualified accountant who spent thirty odd years working in financial services dealing with the nuts and bolts of the issues this book discusses. Here are some of its strengths: It does a great......more

Goodreads review by D. on July 15, 2019

In Moneyland: Why Thieves And Crooks Now Rule The World And How To Take It Back, Oliver Bullough sets out to illuminate the means and methods First World tax dodgers and Third World kleptocrats use to hide their businesses and wealth from the rest of us. Moneyland is a place, he argues, where those......more

Goodreads review by Bruce on March 31, 2019

This book is a ‘how to’ manual for would-be kleptocrats and budding tax avoiders. At an early stage, you get the feeling there will be no happy ending. This is essentially because you know that the world’s super-rich continue to plunder their compatriots and abuse their power. They have their yachts......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on October 08, 2018

Bullough has spent much time in researching this book and it did not disappoint. He chronicled the rise of Moneyland where some stole, hid and then spent money, outside the jurisdiction of all countries. 1. Bretton Woods: system in place to control hot money 2. Eurodollar: American dollars deposited......more

Goodreads review by Ian on September 18, 2023

If you've ever felt that there is one set of laws for the wealthiest 1% and another set for the rest of us, your hunch is correct, and Bullough shows us how this came to pass and how it works. In short, it comes down to a simple fact in our era of globalization: money is international while laws are......more