How Money Laundering Took Over the World
CONFLICTED
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🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:38.3 | Most people imagine crime as something obvious. Drug cartels trafficking cocaine. |
| 0:42.3 | Corrupt politicians stealing from the state. |
| 0:46.3 | Gangsters stuffing suitcases full of cash. |
| 0:50.3 | But crime on that scale has a problem. |
| 0:56.0 | Sooner or later, the money has to enter the legitimate economy. |
| 1:01.0 | And yet, the financial machinery that launder's criminal wealth wasn't built for criminals alone. |
| 1:10.0 | It was built for anyone with enough money to hide. |
| 1:13.6 | Oliver Bolo is a journalist who has spent years investigating this hidden financial underworld. |
| 1:21.6 | In his new book, Everybody Loves Our Dollars. He shows that the same financial architecture that allows |
| 1:29.3 | billionaires to dodge taxes and corporations to hide profits also allows drug cartels, |
| 1:37.5 | kleptocrats, and sanctioned regimes to launder their money. There isn't a separate criminal financial system. There is just the global financial |
| 1:49.0 | system. And governments around the world have proved remarkably bad at controlling it. I'm Thomas |
| 1:58.0 | Small. This is my conflicted conversation with Oliver Bolo. |
| 2:08.1 | Hello, Oliver. How are you? Welcome to conflicted. Thanks for coming on the show. I'm |
| 2:12.5 | really pleased to be here. I'm great and looking forward to having a good chat about all the most important issues |
| 2:19.1 | in the world. |
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