Oliver Bullough - Everyone Loves Our DollarsMumbles Tabernacle, Mumbles, SA3 4AR
Thursday 23rd April 2026 7:00PM
Come and join the amazing, award-winning investigative journalist Oliver Bullough for his Swansea debut: launching his latest bestseller - Everybody Loves Our Dollars - How Money Laundering Won.
Without money laundering, few crimes of acquisition would be worth the trouble. South America’s drug cartels would be stuffed without it, as would Nigerian kleptocrats, Afghan terrorists, American tax evaders and a whole bestiary of human (and animal) traffickers the world over.
And yet, estimates of the dirty portion of world GDP have held steady at 2%-5% for decades. All efforts at legislation, diplomacy, prosecution and compliance have been a complete flop. It’s not a lack of will to stamp it out. It’s a lack of insight. So join bestselling investigative journalist Oliver Bullough on a perspective-altering adventure through the flipside of the global economy.
In the criminal world, cash is still king (in fact, crime might now be the main thing cash is good for, and even why it still exists). Barter is pretty good too: vast, continent-wide exchanges of everything from luxury handbags to baby eels support a triangular drug trade linking Europe to the Far East. Cryptocurrencies flow through paper ledgers that would make a Florentine merchant feel at home.
And the system works. Whether you’re a fraudster, a cartel boss, a corrupt politician, a kleptocrat or a terrorist mastermind, your options to move and hide your money are more secure and more impenetrable than they have ever been. There has never been a better time to be a criminal. It’s time that changed.
One of the very few people who not only understand the convoluted world of money laundering, but are also able to explain it in clear and elegant prose
ANNE APPLEBAUM, author of AUTOCRACY, INC
Bullough has a remarkable gift of making you laugh - and then making you shout with outrage at the financial crime ravaging our lives
PETER POMERANTSEV, author of HOW TO WIN AN INFORMATION WAR
It's not just that Oliver Bullough possesses a kind of x-ray vision, enabling him to perceive all the malignant stuff coursing just beneath the surface of our economic and political systems; he is also a gifted storyteller, who can unpick the most fiendishly complex grift so that it becomes not just explicable but perversely entertaining. Everybody Loves Our Dollars is Bullough at his nimble, companionable, panoramic best, tracing vast amounts of dirty money as it flits around the planet - and in and out of our own pockets
PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of EMPIRE OF PAIN
His reporting is second to none . . . The man has balls
SUNDAY TIMES
Utterly fascinating - like being given X-ray glasses to see the real world. Oliver Bullough should be a national treasure MARINA HYDE
Should be required reading for every politician, regulator and board member with an interest in the financial services industry. .Such an important book FINANCIAL TIMES
Event Details
Starts at 7:00PM
Location
Mumbles Tabernacle, Mumbles, SA3 4AR
Event Venue
Mumbles Tabernacle, 23 Chapel Street, Swansea, SA3 4NH, United Kingdom
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