Imran Mooraj’s Reviews > The Finance Curse: How Global Finance is Making Us All Poorer > Status Update

Private equity is just wild. Some of these methods to siphon wealth and strip companies are even more shocking and blatant than I expected them to be and I really didn't have high expectations when digging into this chapter

Impact of third way thinking has been shocking, but also learning how the UK regulatory environment was significantly weaker than the US was very surprising

The amount of mentions of casual corruption in just a few pages are incredible

interesting learning about how the 'left-wing' parties were captured by the third-way compromise of social welfare policies but in collaboration with extremely pro-business policies, and enabling tax havens and loosening antitrust laws

Really liking the spider web analogy in helping understanding of the system as well as the link to how the rot in the offshore financial systems enabled the rot at the heart of the empire. Struggling to understand the bretton woods part of the book, need to research about that.

Insane that the Cayman islands became the 5th biggest banking centre in the world!