Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World
Written by Oliver Bullough
Narrated by Oliver Bullough
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About this audiobook
"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.
Oliver Bullough
Oliver Bullough is the author of the financial expose Moneyland, a Sunday Times bestseller, and two celebrated books about the former Soviet Union: The Last Man in Russia and Let Our Fame Be Great. His journalism appears regularly in the Guardian, The New York Times and GQ.
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Reviews for Moneyland
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I would give it five stars except that after reading through this book I feel so hopeless about the capacity to change anything that this author so brilliantly identifies.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fascinating subject and engaging storytelling, and well-researched. A window into an unseen world.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Enlightens the average person how the corrupt shelter their wealth.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fairly easy to follow. Well organized and this book uses excellent examplea to prove its points. Wealthy people are using shell companies and property to mitigate taxes and it is stripping the world of potential capital. Money is international, but laws are not. It all seems like an excuse to institute world governance. In their monical quest to accumulate wealth and direct it towards hard assets the wealthy cant get enough. They want the complete subjugation of the honest working man. People should stand together and demand transparency from plutocrats.