Why Can’t We Stop Money Laundering? With Oliver Bullough
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Serenti. In a world where most of us rarely touch cash, why is more physical money being printed than ever before? On today's episode, best-selling investigative journalist and author Oliver Bullock joins us to uncover why, in the criminal underworld, cash is still King.
Drawing on his new book, Everybody Loves Our Dollars, he reveals the hidden financial systems that enable drug cartels, kleptocrats, tax evaders, terrorists, and traffickers to move and shield vast sums of money, despite decades of global efforts to stop them. In conversation with a Tusa Araxia Abrahimian, Bullo explains why so much illicit wealth continues to flow beneath the surface and what urgently needs to change. Let's join our host now with more. Welcome to Intelligence Squared. I'm Atusa Araxia Abrahamian, and our guest today is Oliver Bullo.
Oliver Bulow is a journalist and author of the Sunday Times bestsellers, Butler to the World and Moneyland, as well as two celebrated books about the former Soviet Union, The Last Man in Russia and Let Our Fame Be Great. Today, I'm delighted to be talking to Oliver about his new book, Everybody Loves Our Dollars. An investigation into the world of global money laundering. Welcome to Intelligence Squared, Oliver. Thank you very much for that.
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