Episode · The Jordan Harbinger Show · 2025-04-19
Books mentioned on Top Historian: How the Ukraine War is Going to End
Anne Applebaum recommended Moneyland by Oliver Bullough.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Moneyland
Moneyland by Oliver Bullough is an investigative examination of the global network of offshore finance, tax evasion, and kleptocracy that allows the ultra-wealthy to hide stolen assets and manipulate international markets.
Recommended“It's hard to understand. Um Oliver Bulock actually who you who you've interviewed has a his book is called Moneyland and it's one of the best and easiest to understand versions that explains it if you if you want to know more about it. Um um but the the problem is not just that that complicated world of finance.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Autocracy, Inc.
“Yeah, this this was actually one of the original insights that led me to write the book.”
Passing Iron Curtain
“Um you know it was a it was a process that took you know several decades to to achieve. um it was the destruction of all as I said there was no no independent business no independent economy of any kind in addition to that there were no non-state organizations of any kind either so um when and I wrote”
Passing Twilight of Democracy
“It's actually now out of power, but we did have it for several years. Um I saw it happen in Hungary, which is a country that I spent a lot of time in at one point. One of my books is partly about Hungary. I saw a version of it in Russia um 20 years uh earlier as well.”