Journalist Tom Burgis tracked how dirty money flooded the global economy for his latest book, “Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World.” He says it’s a system that launders stolen billions, emboldens dictators and poisons democracies. And he says this international band of thieves is uniting at an incalculable cost to us all.
Economics
Renegade Inc: Danny Dorling – Finntopia: Lessons From The World’s Happiest Country
The league tables that caused plenty of consternation amongst the Western political classes show the Nordic countries constantly top in education, media freedom, lack of corruption, happiness and quality of life. So how did they […]
Austerity
Emma Clancy – EU Recovery: Public debt and the ECB
Emma Clancy’s talk in our series “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau”. If you wish to know what is really occurring in the EU, Emma is one of the experts. We would like to thank the […]
Economics
Nick Shaxson – “The Finance Curse – 20 reasons to shrink your local financial centre”
Countries whose economies are dominated by large financial centres suffer a “Finance Curse” that is rather similar in cause and effect to a “Resource Curse” that afflicts many countries whose economies are dominated by large […]
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