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Moneyland: Why Thieves And Crooks Now Rule The World And How To Take It Back

por Oliver Bullough

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Estos son los hombres que han robado al mundo entero Hace tiempo, si un funcionario robaba, poda comprarse un coche o construirse una casa nueva, pero eso era todo. Si continuaba robando, el dinero se acumulaba hasta que no quedaba espacio donde ocultarlo o se lo coman los ratones. Pero, entonces, a un reducido grupo de banqueros londinenses se le ocurri una gran idea: los parasos fiscales, lugares imaginarios donde el dinero poda moverse libremente. Esta innovacin dio lugar a una ingente cantidad de riquezas ocultas que esquivan las leyes para proteger a sus poderosos dueos. Oliver Bullough, clebre periodista de investigacin, nos acompaa en un viaje por <>, un lugar secreto y sin ley, hogar de los super-ricos aptridas. Descubre cmo instituciones de Europa y Estados Unidos se han convertido en mquinas de blanqueo de capitales que han debilitado los cimientos de la estabilidad occidental. Identifica a los "cleptcratas" y conoce a los heroicos activistas que luchan por evitar que estos ladrones controlen el mundo entero.… (más)
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Man darf sich von dem (unglücklich gewählten) Untertitel & der boulevardesken Illustration nicht aufs Glatteis führen lassen: "Moneyland", so der Original-Titel, ist keine links-populistische, antikapitalistische Suada, sondern eine seriöse Zusammenfassung der Arbeit des britischen Investigativ-Journalisten Oliver Bullough (Guardian, NYT), der jahrelang zur Geschichte & den gegenwärtigen Ausprägungen des sogenannten 'Off-Shore'-Geldes recherchiert hat.
Mit zahlreichen Beispielen aus dem post-sowjetischen & dem postkolonialen, sub-saharischen Raum sowie aus Asien, dem Nahen Osten & Südamerika, beschreibt der Autor, wie, wo & warum diese Formen des Diebstahls & der Steuerhinterziehung stattfinden, wer davon profitiert, und warum die Verfolgung & rechtliche Sanktion dieser Verbrechen so schwierig ist.
Verdienstvoll auch, daß Bullough die Leidtragenden des institutionalisierten Diebstahls des Volksvermögens in Dutzenden von ehemaligen Entwicklungs- & heutigen Schwellen-Ländern beschreibt & und ihnen einen Stimme verleiht: den kleinen Leuten in Russland, der Ukraine; in Kenia, Nigeria & China.
Bitter die Erkenntnis, daß Kriminelle aus den failed-states aller Welt ihr gestohlenes Geld niemals ohne die Mithilfe von Juristen, Politikern & Lobbyisten aus den Vorzeige-Demokratien der ersten Welt dem Zugriff ihrer Bevölkerungen entziehen könnten.
"Land des Geldes" ist sehr gut recherchiert, ausgezeichnet geschrieben & gut übersetzt. Es macht komplexe finanzielle & juristische Fragen für den interessierten Laien verstehbar.
Ein wichtiges Buch & eine starke Empfehlung.
  Burkhard_Schirdewahn | Oct 15, 2022 |
A revelation for me. I realised that wealthy people are able to 'reduce' their exposure to tax in various ways. I did not appreciate how many ways there are for people that have no concept of their reliance on the others in society to evade responsibility and indebtedness to them. A pox on all their houses. ( )
  wbell539 | Dec 22, 2021 |
An interesting and far-ranging overview of how capital avoids controls through global arbitrage. Include the history of citizenship by investment, offshore banking, and the symbiotic roles of third world corruption and property and banking markets of the first world. ( )
  octal | Jan 1, 2021 |
For those who already know how the wealthiest among us protect their money from the IRS, from law enforcement agencies, and from the scrutiny of other governments, this book will give you an advanced degree in the subject. For those blissfully unaware of the machinations of Moneyland, the book provides a jarring re-adjustment of all of your treasured assumptions about “fair play” and how the world really works.

One of the surprising revelations in Moneyland is that the tax-avoidance manipulations and the shuffling of money to hide it from governments is almost always entirely legal. This book does not reveal how laws are broken. Instead, it reveals how laws are passed, and intentionally customized to provide rabbit holes down which to sink vast fortunes in the hundreds of $billions and even $trillions. The term “rabbit hole” is quaint, because this nether region of $trillions, which the author calls “Moneyland,” where a tiny percentage of the population does business, constitutes an economy as large as the entire global “above-ground” economy.

One of the key facts that makes Moneyland possible, is that money can flow freely across national borders, but law enforcement does not. Law enforcement stops at the border. So the FBI, for example, can do nothing about US Citizens who own dozens of shell companies in other nation states. Some of the Moneyland-friendly nation states specifically legislate to attract Moneylanders. Investigators from the US or other countries cannot gain access to any of the records of incorporation, or bank records, or records of transactions, or even who may have accounts in the Moneyland nation state. By creating corporate structures in various jurisdictions, Moneyland rises above the laws of any one jurisdiction. So the rich figuratively, sometimes literally, are global citizens, above the laws of any single country, in ways that are not possible for the rest of us. That’s how Moneyland legally protects Moneyland.

The foundation of Moneyland’s financial industry rests with these governments whose economy depends upon the world’s wealthiest clients who want secrecy. For some nations, this is their only economy. They generate revenue from the fees they charge for setting up confidential companies and confidential transactions. They deal in citizenship and passports as commodities. For example, if you are a leader of a government, and you squirrel away $billions, you might want to make a quick exit from that country at some point. If you have a ready-made citizenship in a nation state in the Caribbean, and a passport to travel under, you are home free. By moving your $billions around various shell companies incorporated in the Caribbean, you can draw on that money anytime, anywhere, with assured confidentiality. And it’s perfectly legal. Moneyland does not check or care if the original source of the money was legal or ethical. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn’t. But once the money is invested in this shadow global financial industry, it is effectively “laundered,” and legally protected.

The rules of the game are very complicated. Everyone’s financial situation is different. It takes the brightest lawyers to look at an individual’s circumstances, then determine which Moneyland nations’ laws are best suited to protect the secrecy and security of the individual’s wealth, and maximize it. The precise strategies using shell companies and Caribbean accounts is unique for each individual. This is why Moneyland is such a massive invisible industry. The first requirement of the whole system is invisibility, the second requirement is ease of access to the “processed” money.

Nation states actually engage these Moneyland lawyers to help write their laws to make sure Moneylanders will do business in their country. When you see the annual “wealthiest people in the world” listed in a finance magazine, the one thing you can be sure of, is that those are NOT the wealthiest people in the world. The wealthiest are invisible, and will never be included in such a list.

If you happen to slip up, or get a bad lawyer, who leaves a loophole open where your money machinations broke a law in some country, exposing you to law enforcement, there is one other commodity you can buy for extra safety: Diplomatic Immunity. For the right price, you can be come an official designee from a willing nation state to the United Nations. Once you have a nation state’s citizenship, passport, and add “diplomat” to your credentials, you have the ultimate checkmate over the US or any other country’s legal jurisdiction.

Moneylanders are sometimes referred to as “UHNWs” or Ultra-High-Net-Worth people. In a world of 7 billion people, there are about 230,000 UHNWs. The wealth of these 230,000 people is about $27 trillion. The UHNW population is expected to grow to about 300,000 in the next couple of years, with wealth increasing to about $36 trillion.

A shell company can be owned by another shell company, and so on with no end to the layers. There are plenty of buildings in London, New York, and around the world that no one knows who owns. In one example, the US government didn’t know who owned a third of the buildings leased by its own General Services Administration (98). Apparently shell-company ownership is so routine to those “in the know,” the government doesn’t even care if it leases from anonymous companies.

Towards the end of the book, the author makes a weak (perhaps obligatory) attempt to encourage the reader that Moneyland can still be changed, even dismantled. But that attempt is so lame, it actually reinforces the permanence and unchangeability of the $trillion financial industry known as Moneyland.

In the final analysis, Moneyland is here to stay. Secrecy ensures a good portion of the wealth in Moneyland will continue to come from illegal sources (corrupt government officials, tax evaders, organized crime figures). But much comes legally, though perhaps not ethically, by way of shell companies that feed tax-free cash into the system. The book names names of some Moneylanders (from American businesses to foreign dictators to sundry international entrepreneurs), cites attempted legal cases and lawsuits, identifies the nation states most closely identified with shell companies and Moneylanders. These are not included in this book review. You’ll have to buy the book for that information.

The book tells a gripping story, a story that is rigorously factual and documented in every detail. An unexpected bonus of this book—it is beautifully written. Bullough is an excellent writer who knows how to craft a sentence as well as how to tell a story. It’s a compelling story and a pleasure to read. ( )
  Coutre | Dec 23, 2020 |
Moneyland is well written and very readable even for one who is not an economist by any means. That being said, the implications presented for the well-being of democracy are terrifying. This book should be read for not other reason than to bring people to grips with the damage being done by the kleptocrats. ( )
  spclarke | Apr 8, 2020 |
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Estos son los hombres que han robado al mundo entero Hace tiempo, si un funcionario robaba, poda comprarse un coche o construirse una casa nueva, pero eso era todo. Si continuaba robando, el dinero se acumulaba hasta que no quedaba espacio donde ocultarlo o se lo coman los ratones. Pero, entonces, a un reducido grupo de banqueros londinenses se le ocurri una gran idea: los parasos fiscales, lugares imaginarios donde el dinero poda moverse libremente. Esta innovacin dio lugar a una ingente cantidad de riquezas ocultas que esquivan las leyes para proteger a sus poderosos dueos. Oliver Bullough, clebre periodista de investigacin, nos acompaa en un viaje por , un lugar secreto y sin ley, hogar de los super-ricos aptridas. Descubre cmo instituciones de Europa y Estados Unidos se han convertido en mquinas de blanqueo de capitales que han debilitado los cimientos de la estabilidad occidental. Identifica a los "cleptcratas" y conoce a los heroicos activistas que luchan por evitar que estos ladrones controlen el mundo entero.

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