Read, Watch, & Listen

Books to Read (authors are in alphabetical order):

• Applebaum, Anne (2024) Autocracy Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
• Alley, Patrick, (2024) Terrible Humans: The World’s most corrupt super-villains – and the fight to bring them down
• Admati, Anat and Hellwig, Martin (2024), The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong With Banking and What to Do About It
• Ballou, Brendan (2023), Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America
• Browder, Bill (2023) Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
• Burrows, Oliver (2019) Moneyland: Why Thieves And Crooks Now Rule The World And How To Take It Back
• Michel, Casey (2021) American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History
• Faux, Zeke (2023), Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
• DiResta, Renée (2024) Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality
• Harrington, Brooke (2024) Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
• Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook
• Jacoby, Melissa (2024) Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal
• Nocera, Joe and McLean Bethany (2023), The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind
• Ramanna, Karthik (2024), The Age of Outrage: How to Lead in a Polarized World
• Story, Louise & Reed, Ebony (2024) Fifteen Cents on the Dollar: How Americans Made the Black-White Wealth Gap
• White, Geoffrey (2024) Rinsed: From Cartels to Crypto How the Tech Industry Washes Money for the World's Deadliest Crooks
• Wolf, Martin (2023), The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

Feature Films & Documentaries to Watch:

• China, the U.S. & the Rise of Xi Jinping” (2024), Frontline documentary
• Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street” (2023), Netflix documentary series
• The Power of Big Oil” (2022), 3-part Frontline documentary
• Man on the Run” (2023), Netflix documentary (about 1MBD4)
• Putin and the Presidents” (2023) Frontline documentary
• Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard/Netflix (2022)
• Dirty Money (2018–2020) Netflix docuseries

Podcasts:

• Bad Bets (about Trevor Milton)
• Brazen  (Many podcasts, particularly Whale Hunting, Fat Leonard, Spy Valley)
• Bribe, Swindle and Steal
• Business Scholarship
• FT TechTonic podcast
• A Long Time in Finance
• The Finreg Pod
• The Journal