Kleptopia

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• danielodievich · May 28, 2021 · Recommends

  I read The Economist which every year publishes their list of notable books. That is how I found Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World by Tom Burgis of The Financial Times. That book describes how the richest people get there (mostly through ill gotten means) and what they do to hide money (lots…

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• pyuser583 · Jan 5, 2022 · Recommends

  …Khazakhstan. Even more chilling, how the ruling elite manipulate the international press. If you don’t hate Tony Blair already, this will help you cross that line in a big way. https://www.amazon.com/Kleptopia-Dirty-Money-Conquering-Worl...

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• mrbadger · Aug 10, 2023 · Recommends

  …by Oliver Bullough: Moneyland https://www.amazon.co.uk/Moneyland-Thieves-Crooks-Rule-World... Butler to the World https://www.amazon.co.uk/Butler-World-Britain-Empire-Found-e... and, by Tom Burgis Kleptopia https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kleptopia-Dirty-Money-Conquering-Wo... and this YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n3txSCoKn0

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• DyslexicAtheist · Jul 14, 2022 · Recommends

  I also came to praise Treasure Islands. Also highly relevant with the Russian invasion in Ukraine ongoing is Kleptopia. The author also battled a defamation lawsuit against him in the UK which was dismissed in March. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptopia

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• pyuser583 · Feb 10, 2023 · Recommends

  There’s a really great book called Kleptopia by T. Burgis. It’s about how wealthy oligarchs use the Western legal and banking systems. He points out that the US financial system is squeaky clean. Oligarchs wind up in prison because they think they…

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• pyuser583 · Feb 11, 2023 · Recommends

  Read Kleptopia. It’s written by a British author and mostly about the British financial/legal system. I’m not sure how much of it is current in light of the sanctions. The big example it uses (90% of the book) is Khazakhstan.…

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• samstave · Mar 5, 2022 · Mentions

  …anon companies to "park" (his words) wealth in straight economies. "there is an entire industry servicing kleptokrats from across the world" -- Deleware being a core component t money laundering... Kleptopia...

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