Everybody Loves Our Dollars (the Secret Life Of Dirty Money)

By (author) Bullough, Oliver
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A wide-ranging exposé of global money laundering - and the dark financial secrets at the heart of the world economy - from one of Britain''s leading investigative journalists
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

The world''s criminals earn trillions every year. They keep almost all of it. Every effort to stop them has failed. Why?

Join Oliver Bullough through the looking glass, voyaging through the dark heart of the global economy: where flows of dirty banknotes, designer goods and baby eels prop up illicit networks spanning from Miami to Shanghai - via, strangely, North Oxfordshire. Cryptocurrencies flow through ledgers that would look familiar to a fifteenth-century Florentine banker. Casinos, lottery tickets and government ignorance all power the merry-go-round of dirty money. And it all works brilliantly. Better than ever.

There has never been a better time to be a criminal. It''s time that changed.

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Should be required reading for every politician, regulator and board member with an interest in the financial services industry . . . Such an important book
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His reporting is second to none . . . The man has balls
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A jaw-dropping exposé . . . Bullough is one of Britain''s finest investigative reporters. He is thorough, his sources are impressive, and he has a lovely, easy style which takes us through some of the darkest features of the world''s economy. He also has a fine sense of moral purpose . . . He seems to be completely without fear
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I''ve been writing about the global financial system for thirty years, but reading this revelatory book by Oliver Bullough, I now realise I barely knew the half of it
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It''s not just that Oliver Bullough possesses a kind of x-ray vision, enabling him to perceive all the malignant stuff coursing just beneath the surface of our economic and political systems; he is also a gifted storyteller, who can unpick the most fiendishly complex grift so that it becomes not just explicable but perversely entertaining. Everybody Loves Our Dollars is Bullough at his nimble, companionable, panoramic best, tracing vast amounts of dirty money as it flits around the planet - and in and out of our own pockets
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One of the very few people who not only understand the convoluted world of money laundering, but are also able to explain it in clear and elegant prose
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Utterly fascinating - like being given X-ray glasses to see the real world. Oliver Bullough should be a national treasure
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The truth hurts and this stings. Insightful and accurate
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Alarming and unsettling . . . Bullough is a star investigative journalist with a long track record in writing about illicit financial flows . . . Rich countries, trying to cut down on illicit flows of finance, have focused their energies on the one thing they can see and control: transfers and transactions inside the official financial system. Bullough comes up with an excellent metaphor for this: the FATF is like a drunk looking for his lost keys under a streetlight, not because that''s where he lost them, but because it''s the only place where he can see
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Entertaining and eye-opening . . . This is a passionate book . . . Strongly recommended
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A vital must-read book. Bullough''s latest exposé rails against the hypocritical box-ticking of a compliance culture that utterly fails to rein in money laundering and targets poorer nations, while allowing financial crime to flourish in London and New York. A call to action against the whitecollar bankers and lawyers who feed off the crimes target