Summary of Oliver Bullough's Moneyland

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

#1 There are many faces of London, depending on whom it is speaking to. For tourists, there is the pageantry and ceremony of the Changing of the Guards, which is for the tourists. For locals, there are the suburbs with their semi-detached houses, hedges, no-through-roads, and parks.

#2 The second place to go with this story is to look back at 2 Woodberry Grove and ask why Pompolo, a company with access to significant amounts of cash, would base itself in an unglamorous part of London.

#3 Paul Manafort, who was Trump’s campaign manager for a short period of time, revealed corruption surrounding the election of Donald Trump. But his link to Trump inadvertently gives us a window into something much bigger, a shadowy system that is quietly but effectively impoverishing millions.

#4 I visited many of the old elite’s hidden haunts after the revolution. One trip took me to the heart of a forest outside Kiev, where I found the key to paradise.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669383918

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

There are many faces of London, depending on whom it is speaking to. For tourists, there is the pageantry and ceremony of the Changing of the Guards, which is for the tourists. For locals, there are the suburbs with their semi-detached houses, hedges, no-through-roads, and parks.

#2

The second place to go with this story is to look back at 2 Woodberry Grove and ask why Pompolo, a company with access to significant amounts of cash, would base itself in an unglamorous part of London.

#3

Paul Manafort, who was Trump’s campaign manager for a short period of time, revealed corruption surrounding the election of Donald Trump. But his link to Trump inadvertently gives us a window into something much bigger, a shadowy system that is quietly but effectively impoverishing millions.

#4

I visited many of the old elite’s hidden haunts after the revolution. One trip took me to the heart of a forest outside Kiev, where I found the key to paradise.

#5

I was so excited about the prospect of democratic transformation in Eastern Europe in the 1990s that I didn’t realize I had already missed it. Instead, I found myself reporting on wars and abuses, experiencing paranoia and harassment.

#6

I had written two books about the former USSR by 2014, and I had noticed that the nations that had gained independence in 1991 had not gained liberty and prosperity, but politicians who cared more about their own defecatory comfort than the well-being of the nations they ruled.

#7

The Ukrainian health ministry ended up paying more than double what it needed to for anti-retrovirals, the drug needed to control HIV and prevent it from developing into full-blown AIDS, despite Ukraine's having Europe's fastest-growing epidemic.

#8

The investigation revealed that the president’s assets were all overseas, in tax havens. This made it difficult for investigators to track them down.

#9

Offshore finance allows corrupt officials to steal money from their home countries and deposit it into a box that teleportes it to any destination they choose. The money is then completely out of reach and oversight of the public.

#10

The damage this does to the