Low budget independent documentaries >>>>>>
This one hitssssssssss
Hereβs the description:
Michael Oswald's film The Spider's Web reveals how at the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth is hidden in British jurisdictions and Britain and its dependencies are the largest global players in the world of international finance.
Gonna finish it tomorrow! π€
Would love more recommendations if you run across more good ones. I strongly recommend and all of the Adam Curtis documentaries, but "Can't Get You Out of My Head" is probably at the top of my list.
I personally really liked Princes of the Yen, which gave quite a bit of insight as to what was going on with Japan post-war
The book is based off of is very good, but dense- the YouTube doc is a bit cheaply made, but gets the big ideas
Appreciate the recommendation Nolan will def check it out π«‘
This is really interesting! The City is fascinating, as is the emergence of 20th century finance
okay, finished that after dinner this evening- it was neat to learn about the American economic warfare during Vietnam (the gold standard era). I'm a bit skeptical of their ultimate pitch, though. The funny thing is that even though they're talking about the post-empire era in general, everything they're describing is- surprise surprise- from the post-1971 fiat era. The pitch is that all this bad stuff is due to financial privacy, and if we only had better surveillance and more taxation, everything would be fine.
as an aside, I think this recent video from CaspianReport is a real good compliment to the stuff they talked about in the middle about the impact on the developing world. In this case they're talking about France, not the UK, but it shows how that extraction/financial imperialism relies quite a bit on central bank shenanigans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-u1Pjce4Lg