Hidden Forces
Description
In Episode 160, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Tom Burgis of the Financial Times about the rise of a new, international kleptocracy.
The trillions of dollars looted by members of this cabal every year are enough to buy the political power needed to change the laws, to loot some more, in a virtuous cycle of fraud, criminality, and wide-spread corruption of the very system of liberal, democratic capitalism upon which these same kleptocrats depend for their survival.