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CONFLICTED

How Money Laundering Took Over the World

CONFLICTED

Message Heard

Religion & Spirituality, History

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In this Conflicted Conversation, Thomas speaks to journalist Oliver Bollough about his illuminating new book ⁠Everybody Loves Our Dollars: How Money Laundering Won⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Oliver and Thomas discuss: Iranian oil money flowing into London property Russian oligarch wealth parked in Western banks Al Capone to Miami: evolution of money laundering Jeffrey Epstein and elite financial fixers network $100 bills fuelling global criminal cash economy White House insiders profiting from crypto and stablecoins Chinese gangs laundering cartel money worldwide Hawala and ancient trade-based money transfer systems Find Oliver on Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/olbullough/⁠ Join the Conflicted Community here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://conflicted.supportingcast.fm⁠⁠⁠⁠ Find Conflicted on X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/MHconflicted⁠⁠⁠⁠ And Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted⁠⁠⁠⁠ And Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/conflictedpod⁠⁠⁠⁠ And YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sdlF1mY5t4⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠megaphone.fm/adchoices⁠⁠⁠⁠ Conflicted is a Message Heard production. Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren. This episode was produced by Thomas Small and edited by Lizzy Andrews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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