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In his forceful follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough unravels the dark secret of how Britain placed itself at the center of the global offshore economy and at the service of the worst people in the world.
The Suez Crisis of 1956 was the nadir of Britain's twentieth century, the moment when the once-superpower was bullied into retreat. "Great Britain has lost an empire and not yet found a role," said Dean Acherson, a former US secretary of state. Acheson's line has entered into the canon of great quotations: but it was wrong. Britain had already found a role. The leaders of the world just hadn't noticed it yet.
Butler to the World reveals how Britain came to assume its role as the center of the offshore economy. Written polemically, but studded with witty references to the butlers of popular fiction, it demonstrates how so many elements of modern Britain have been put at the service of the world's oligarchs.
The Biden administration is putting corruption at the heart of its foreign policy, and that means it needs to confront Britain's role as the foremost enabler of financial crime and ill behavior. This audiobook lays bare how London has deliberately undercut U.S. regulations for decades, and calls into question the extent to which Britain can be considered a reliable ally.
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
Trickle Down Tyranny is the single book you need to stop Obama's emerging dictatorship before we lose all of our constitutional, God-given rights. These pages show you the dangerous laws and powergrabs of the Obama administration… and what we can do to stop this leftist gang from seizing another term in office. Obama is transforming us into a second-class nation, with communists and Islamists given free rein to expand their power.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brings Clarity to the Obama charade.
- De Mrs. Stolle en 04-05-12
De: Michael Savage
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The Oligarchs
- Wealth and Power in the New Russia
- De: David Hoffman
- Narrado por: Steve Coulter
- Duración: 22 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 307
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 260
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 263
A brilliant investigative narrative: How six average Soviet men rose to the pinnacle of Russia's battered economy. David Hoffman, former Moscow bureau chief for
The Washington Post, sheds light onto the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs. Focusing on six of these ruthless men Hoffman reveals how a few players managed to take over Russia's cash-strapped economy and then divvy it up in loans-for-shares deals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Supreme Chronicle of Murky Times
- De ivan en 03-01-14
De: David Hoffman
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Putin's Kleptocracy
- Who Owns Russia?
- De: Karen Dawisha
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 14 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 294
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 264
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 266
The raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawisha’s brilliant Putin’s Kleptocracy provides an answer, describing how Putin got to power, the cabal he brought with him, the billions they have looted, and his plan to restore the Greater Russia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Who owns Russia
- De Amazon Customer en 11-09-14
De: Karen Dawisha
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The Hellhound of Wall Street
- How Ferdinand Pecora's Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance
- De: Michael Perino
- Narrado por: George K. Wilson
- Duración: 14 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
In The Hellhound of Wall Street, Michael Perino recounts in riveting detail the 1933 hearings that put Wall Street on trial for the Great Crash. Never before in American history had so many financial titans been called to account before the public, and they had come within a few weeks of emerging unscathed. By the time Ferdinand Pecora, a Sicilian immigrant and former New York prosecutor, took over as chief counsel, the investigation had dragged on ineffectively for nearly a year and was universally written off as dead....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Story
- De Lynn en 03-22-11
De: Michael Perino
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The Swamp
- Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism—and How Trump Can Drain It
- De: Eric Bolling
- Narrado por: Eric Bolling
- Duración: 5 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 259
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 230
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 228
Bestselling author and Fox News Channel host Eric Bolling presents an infuriating, amusing, revealing, and outrageous history of American politics, past and present, Republican and Democrat. From national political scandals to tempests in a teapot that blew up; bribery, blackmail, bullying, and backroom deals that contradicted public policies; cronyism that cost taxpayers hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars; and personal conduct that can only be described as regrettable, The Swamp is a journey downriver through the bayous and marshes of Capitol Hill and Foggy Bottom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mr. President, drain the swamp
- De Wayne en 06-30-17
De: Eric Bolling
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Tower of Basel
- The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World
- De: Adam LeBor
- Narrado por: John Mawson
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 223
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 187
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 185
Tower of Basel is the first investigative history of the world’s most secretive global financial institution. Based on extensive archival research in Switzerland, Britain, and the United States, and in-depth interviews with key decision-makers including Paul Volcker, the former chairman of the US Federal Reserve; Sir Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England; and former senior Bank for International Settlements managers and officials.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Such enthralling true information
- De Joe Leiman en 12-24-18
De: Adam LeBor
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The Looting Machine
- Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
- De: Tom Burgis
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 284
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 246
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 244
The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals, and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China, and the other "emerging markets" have transformed their economies, Africa's resource states remained tethered to the bottom of the industrial supply chain. While Africa accounts for about 30 percent of the world's reserves of hydrocarbons and minerals and 14 percent of the world's population, its share of global manufacturing stood in 2011 exactly where it stood in 2000: at 1 percent.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Frightening, Fascinating, Fatiguing
- De Scott en 07-29-18
De: Tom Burgis
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Detroit Resurrected
- To Bankruptcy and Back
- De: Nathan Bomey
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
From thriving Motor City to the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history, Detroit has become the nation's cautionary tale. But what led to the fateful day of the filing, and how did the city survive this crisis? Journalist Nathan Bomey delivers the inside story of Detroit's decline and the people who fought to save it against impossible odds: Governor Rick Snyder, a self-proclaimed nerd; emergency manager Kevyn Orr, a lawyer with singular dedication; Judge Steven Rhodes, the city's conscience; and retirees who fought to ensure that Detroit kept its promises.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Outsiders Perspective
- De Carl en 02-07-17
De: Nathan Bomey
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Trickle Up Poverty
- Stopping Obama's Attack on Our Borders, Economy, and Security
- De: Michael Savage
- Narrado por: Robert Louis
- Duración: 12 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 82
Trickle Up Poverty is your best defense against the Obamanomics that are dragging the middle class, and everyone else, into a Marxist-Socialist death spiral. The Savage manifesto you hold in your hands shows how Obama is circumventing the Constitution to push through his radical agenda - and, most important, how we can restore our country to the power and prestige that Barack Obama and his corrupt and degenerate "czars" are trying to destroy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The book is much better than the radio show
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De: Michael Savage
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The Forgotten Man
- De: Amity Shlaes
- Narrado por: Terence Aselford
- Duración: 14 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand how the nation endured. In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. Rejecting the old emphasis on the New Deal, she turns to the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how they helped establish the steadfast character we developed as a nation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a story of forgotten times
- De Debb Robinson en 10-11-07
De: Amity Shlaes
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The Fine Print
- How Big Companies Use 'Plain English' to Rob You Blind
- De: David Cay Johnston
- Narrado por: Todd McLaren
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
David Cay Johnston has made a name for himself as the defender of the common man, calling out the rich and powerful for cheating the system at the expense of everyone else. Whether he's exposing unjust loopholes in the tax code that help the rich get richer or pointing out how powerful corporations pocket government subsidies at excessive taxpayer expense, Johnston is an eloquent town crier for justice and equality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must listen if you love or hate Trump
- De Rob D en 04-19-17
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The Billionaire Raj
- A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age
- De: James Crabtree
- Narrado por: Shridhar Solanki
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 120
In megacities like Mumbai, where half the population live in slums, the extraordinary riches of India’s new dynasties echo the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers of yesterday. James Crabtree’s The Billionaire Raj takes listeners on a personal journey to meet these reclusive billionaires, fugitive tycoons, and shadowy political power brokers. Crabtree dramatizes the battle between crony capitalists and economic reformers, revealing a tense struggle between equality and privilege playing out against a combustible backdrop of aspiration, class, and caste.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engaging, authors politics could be reduced
- De Chris en 06-17-23
De: James Crabtree
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McMafia
- A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
- De: Misha Glenny
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 15 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 260
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 203
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 202
Misha Glenny's groundbreaking study of global organized crime is now the inspiration for an eight-part AMC crime drama starring James Norton (War and Peace), Juliet Rylance, and David Strathairn. In this fearless and wholly authoritative investigation of the seemingly insatiable demand for illegal wares, veteran reporter Misha Glenny travels across five continents to speak with participants from every level of the global underworld. What follows is a groundbreaking, propulsive look at an unprecedented phenomenon from a savvy, street-wise guide.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worthwhile Overview
- De Roy en 05-14-10
De: Misha Glenny
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God's Bankers
- A History of Money and Power at the Vatican
- De: Gerald Posner
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 21 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 476
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 423
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 423
From a master chronicler of legal and financial misconduct, a magnificent investigation nine years in the making, this book traces the political intrigue and inner workings of the Catholic Church. Decidedly not about faith, belief in God, or religious doctrine, this audiobook is about the church's accumulation of wealth and its byzantine entanglements with financial markets across the world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The book was really good till it wasn't.
- De Dr. JSH en 06-05-16
De: Gerald Posner
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Armageddon
- How Trump Can Beat Hillary
- De: Dick Morris, Eileen McGann
- Narrado por: Ian Patterson
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 461
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 460
Timed for the critical presidential election season, New York Times best-selling author and noted political commentator Dick Morris provides a strategy and position on the issues for Republicans to attract crucial new voters to the party in order to win back the White House in 2016 and put an end to the Obama agenda of ruinous socialism. By using new issues, attracting new voters, and offering new alternatives, Republicans can win the election of 2016 and save America!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative and practical a must read
- De quentin en 06-30-16
De: Dick Morris, y otros
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Borrowed Time
- Two Centuries of Booms, Busts, and Bailouts at Citi
- De: James Freeman, Vern McKinley
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
To save the economy and keep Citi afloat in 2008, the government provided huge infusions of cash through multiple bailouts that frustrated and angered the American public. But, as Wall Street Journal writer James Freeman and financial expert Vern McKinley reveal, the 2008 crisis was just one of many disasters Citi has experienced since its founding more than 200 years ago. In Borrowed Time they reveal Citi’s disturbing history of instability and government support. It’s a story that neither Citi nor Washington wants told.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Biased
- De CF en 08-09-19
De: James Freeman, y otros
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The Great American Stick Up
- Greedy Bankers and the Politicians Who Love Them
- De: Robert Scheer
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
Instead of going where other journalists have gone in search of this story - the board rooms and trading floors of the big Wall Street firms - Scheer goes back to Washington, D.C., a veritable crime scene, beginning in the 1980s, where the captains of the finance industry, their lobbyists and allies among leading politicians destroyed an American regulatory system that had been functioning effectively since the era of the New Deal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great telling of an unfortunate part of history
- De Trace en 10-27-20
De: Robert Scheer
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The Match King
- Ivar Kreuger, the Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
- De: Frank Partnoy
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 267
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 184
At the height of the roaring 20s, Swedish émigré Ivar Kreuger made a fortune raising money in America and loaning it to Europe in exchange for matchstick monopolies. His enterprise was a rare success story throughout the Great Depression. Yet after Kreuger's suicide in 1932, the true nature of his empire emerged.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent Depression era history-biography
- De Donovan R. en 06-17-10
De: Frank Partnoy
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In March 2021, an obscure financial technology company called Greensill Capital collapsed, going into administration. As it unravelled, a multibillion-dollar scandal emerged that would shake the very foundations of the British political system, drawing in swiss bankers, global CEOs, and world leaders, including former British Prime Minister, David Cameron. At the centre was an Australian financier named Lex Greensill. Pyramid of Lies charts the meteoric rise and spectacular downfall of Greensill and his company.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Could not quite get into it
- De Andrew M. en 05-29-23
De: Duncan Mavin
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The Looting Machine
- Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
- De: Tom Burgis
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals, and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China, and the other "emerging markets" have transformed their economies, Africa's resource states remained tethered to the bottom of the industrial supply chain. While Africa accounts for about 30 percent of the world's reserves of hydrocarbons and minerals and 14 percent of the world's population, its share of global manufacturing stood in 2011 exactly where it stood in 2000: at 1 percent.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Frightening, Fascinating, Fatiguing
- De Scott en 07-29-18
De: Tom Burgis
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Billionaires' Row
- Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers
- De: Katherine Clarke
- Narrado por: Kristen DiMercurio
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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To look south and skyward from Central Park these days is to gaze upon a physical manifestation of tens of billions of dollars in global wealth: a series of soaring spires stretching from Park Avenue to Broadway. Known as Billionaires’ Row, this set of slender high-rise residences has transformed the skyline of New York City, thanks to developer-friendly policies and a seemingly endless gush of cash from tech, finance, and foreign oligarchs. And chances are most of us will never be invited to step inside.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The rise and fall of great american skyscrapers
- De Ola Erdal en 02-13-24
De: Katherine Clarke
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When McKinsey Comes to Town
- The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
- De: Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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In When McKinsey Comes to Town, two prizewinning investigative journalists have written a portrait of the company sharply at odds with its public image. Bogdanich and Forsythe have penetrated the veil of secrecy surrounding McKinsey by conducting hundreds of interviews, obtaining tens of thousands of revelatory documents, and following rule #1 of investigative reporting: Follow the money. When McKinsey Comes to Town is a a devastating portrait of a firm whose work has often made the world more unequal, more corrupt, and more dangerous.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Shows systemic problems in McKinsey's culture
- De GA en 10-15-22
De: Walt Bogdanich, y otros
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The World for Sale
- Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
- De: Javier Blas, Jack Farchy
- Narrado por: John Sackville
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
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In The World for Sale, two leading journalists lift the lid on one of the least scrutinised corners of the economy: the workings of the billionaire commodity traders who buy, hoard and sell the earth's resources. It is the story of how a handful of swashbuckling businessmen became indispensable cogs in global markets: enabling an enormous expansion in international trade and connecting resource-rich countries - no matter how corrupt or war-torn - with the world's financial centres.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Explains a lot!
- De jaga en 03-24-21
De: Javier Blas, y otros
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Putin's People
- How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
- De: Catherine Belton
- Narrado por: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Duración: 18 h y 12 m
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In Putin’s People, the investigative journalist and former Moscow correspondent Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and the small group of KGB men surrounding him rose to power and looted their country. Delving deep into the workings of Putin’s Kremlin, Belton accesses key inside players to reveal how Putin replaced the freewheeling tycoons of the Yeltsin era with a new generation of loyal oligarchs, who in turn subverted Russia’s economy and legal system and extended the Kremlin's reach into the United States and Europe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ultimate in nonfiction on Putinism.
- De Victoria Eriksson en 08-22-20
De: Catherine Belton
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Billion Dollar Whale
- De: Bradley Hope, Tom Wright
- Narrado por: Will Collyer
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7,567
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,506
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,493
Now a number-one international best seller, Billion Dollar Whale is "an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale" (Publishers Weekly), revealing how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest heists in history. In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business named Jho Low set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude—one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Couldn’t stop listening!
- De N Lane en 10-05-18
De: Bradley Hope, y otros
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The Fund
- Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
- De: Rob Copeland
- Narrado por: Rob Copeland, Will Damron
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
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Ray Dalio does not want you to listen to this audiobook. Late last year, when the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund on the planet, announced that he was stepping down from the company he started out of his apartment nearly 50 years ago, the news made headlines around the world. Dalio cultivated an aura of international admiration and fame thanks to his company’s eye-popping success, coupled with a mystique he encouraged with frequent media appearances, celebrity hobnobbing, and his bestselling book, Principles.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best finance book I've read in years
- De Aaron en 12-16-23
De: Rob Copeland
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The Trading Game
- A Confession
- De: Gary Stevenson
- Narrado por: Gary Stevenson
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken soccer balls on the run-down streets of East London, Gary Stevenson dreamed of something bigger. As luck would have it, he was good at numbers. At the London School of Economics, wearing tracksuits and sneakers, Stevenson shocked his posh classmates by winning a competition called “The Trading Game.” The prize? A golden ticket to a new life, as the youngest trader at Citibank.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exposes the rotten core of our modern financial system
- De Amazon Customer en 03-08-24
De: Gary Stevenson
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Butler to the World
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- Casual
- 03-24-23
An Entertaining Journey Around the British Business of “Butlering” to the Shady of the World
Well written. Well read. Time well spent. I would recommend to both business professionals and those who are unfamiliar with the world of finance.
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- Nic
- 11-14-22
Excellent, surprising and easy to read/listen to
Great disassembly of the biggest money laundering operation in the world: London, and the UK in general. Well worth a listen, and full of quite a few surprises. Author reading it makes it so much better too.
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- Brad
- 12-30-22
Extraordinary
A great follow-up to Moneyland from the same author. Very depressing about how corrupt the world is and the the UK is at the heart of it. However very well researched and convincing with good arguments about why this should be stopped.
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- Patrick
- 12-12-22
Changed My World View
Amazing narrative spanning the globe and showing how ignoble the British elite have been to maintain their position. Entertaining and compelling.
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