Where the World's Dirty Money Actually Goes (with Oliver Bullough)

Hello, everybody. I'm Kim Scott here with The Radical Sabbatical. Today I'm talking to Oliver Bullo, who wrote two books that I uh have read and loved, Moneyland and Butler to the World, and he's got a new one coming out, Everybody Loves Our Dollars. Welcome, Oliver. Thanks very much for having me on the show.

Uh, thrilled that you are here. I have read your both of your books twice, and I'm very excited for uh for Everybody Loves Our Dollars. Um I'll tell you why I love the books and you can tell me if uh if this is a strange analogy. But all each of the times I've read your books, I the heart of darkness comes to mind.

There's that that, you know, the scene where the narrator tells the Kurtz's fiancee that he's died and she says, what did he say as he was dying? And of course he said the horror, the horror, but uh the narrator tells her that he said her name. And I sort of feel like For those of us who grew up thinking we live in a non-corrupt society and things are basically reasonable, um, maybe there is a sink you said at one point, there's a sinkhole opening up at your feet. So how do you feel about the horror, the horror?

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