Season 2, Episode 3: Casey Michel: American Kleptocracy

Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Casey Michel, journalist and author of “American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World’s Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History.”  In his debut book, Michel offers a deep investigation into how the US built the largest illicit offshore finance system the world has ever known.

Together, they examine just how the US implosion into a center of global offshoring took place, what that means for the rest of the world, and its vast implications for those who seek to preserve open societies and the rule of law.

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Footnotes:

• Kleptocracy
• Money Laundering  
• Offshoring
• US as a Tax Haven
• Pandora Papers 
• Panama Papers
• Perpetuity 
• South Dakota is Turning Into a Tax-haven for the Global Elite
• Shell Corporations 
• White Collar Crime 
• USA Patriot Act
• Senator Carl Levin
• International Revenue Service (IRS) 
• How Delaware Became the World’s Biggest Offshore Haven
• Loopholes for Kleptocrats
• The Great American Tax Haven: Why the Super-rich Love South Dakota
• Dynasty Trust
• Biden Administration Launches U.S. Str

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