Everybody Loves Our Dollars – How Money Laundering Won

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THE BRAND NEW SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - AN EYE-OPENING AND WILDLY ENTERTAINING NEW ANATOMY OF GLOBAL MONEY LAUNDERING

'Such an important book' FINANCIAL TIMES

'A jaw-dropping exposé . . . Bullough is one of Britain's finest investigative reporters' JOHN SIMPSON, GUARDIAN

'His reporting is second to none . . . The man has balls' SUNDAY TIMES

Without money laundering, Latin American cartels would collapse. So would Russian kleptocrats, Afghan insurgents, American tax dodgers and a menagerie of human (and animal) traffickers.

Governments realise this. The trouble is, they don't really know how the process works. Despite endless laws, raids, fines and taskforces, nothing seems to stop the merry-go-round. So join Oliver Bullough on a voyage of discovery.

On the dark side of the world economy, cash is still king - indeed, crime is arguably the only reason cash still exists. Cryptocurrencies flow through ledgers that would look familiar to a fifteenth-century banker. Vast exchanges of dirty banknotes, designer handbags and baby eels prop up a trade in illegal goods stretching from Miami to Shanghai, via, strangely, north Oxfordshire.

And it all works brilliantly. Better than ever.

It's time that changed.

Critics Review

Should be required reading for every politician, regulator and board member with an interest in the financial services industry . . . Such an important book
FINANCIAL TIMES
His reporting is second to none . . . The man has balls
SUNDAY TIMES
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
GUARDIAN
I've been writing about the global financial system for thirtyyears, but reading this revelatory book by Oliver Bullough, I now realise I barely knew the half of it
Literary Review
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
PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of EMPIRE OF PAIN
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
ANNE APPLEBAUM, author of AUTOCRACY, INC.
Utterly fascinating - like being given X-ray glasses to see the real world. Oliver Bullough should be a national treasure
MARINA HYDE, host, THE REST IS ENTERTAINMENT
The truth hurts and this stings. Insightful and accurate
DAVID LEWIS, former executive secretary of the Financial Action Task Force
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 targeting the world's weakest
CATHERINE BELTON, author of PUTIN'S PEOPLE
This is a blistering account of our failure to stop dirty money. Oliver Bullough has figured out what some of the world's most powerful people don't want us to know - how they keep their filthy billions secret. He exposes the hypocrisy and cynicism of decades of western policy. If you want to know why the kleptocrats, the human traffickers, the terrorists and the grifters are winning, read this book now
TOM BURGIS, author of KLEPTOPIA
Bullough has done it again. Having explained how the world's top goons and gangsters run their finances, he now lays bare why our attempts to stop them are not just ineffective and but scandalously unfair. Box-ticking and bullying, hype and hypocrisy - his verdict on the supposed custodians of our system's integrity is scathing. Packed with anecdotes and insights, this book should be on every decision-maker's desk
EDWARD LUCAS, author of THE NEW COLD WAR
Our leading expert on dirty money exposes the secret networks that power the international economy of crime. Lucid, funny and compelling, Bullough may know more about money laundering than the criminals themselves
ZEKE FAUX, author of NUMBER GO UP
Bullough has a remarkable gift of making you laugh - and then making you shout with outrage at the financial crime ravaging our lives
PETER POMERANTSEV, author of HOW TO WIN AN INFORMATION WAR
Brilliant. An adrenalised tour of the world's dirty money hotspots. Should be slipped into the red box of every minister
BEN STEWART, co-founder, Led By Donkeys

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