EU adopts AML Strategy for Russian gas: Rhetoric over Reality
Boldly claiming impact is the ultimate skill in post-reality politics, where power devolves to leaders fooling most of the people
Strategic anti-money laundering reviews: 1990-2022
A comprehensive analysis of strategic AML reviews, globally and in every country conducting such a review in the past 32 years.
An effectiveness rating for FATF’s AML Effectiveness Report
A new report assesses the state of global anti-money laundering efforts. How does the “effectiveness” report rate for effectiveness?
“The Canadian model”: Any country can weaponize money laundering laws to wage war on dissent; forcing banks, crypto firms to freeze accounts to combat citizens’ thought crime
Canada uses existing money laundering laws to target citizens’ thought-crime, maybe-crime, pre-crime, and petty-crime. Fear not, likeminded leaders; you too have these laws. The FATF AML model is a turnkey, one-size-fits-all version, easily deployed against any country’s citizens.
AML: “Globalizing an extremely expensive regulatory order”
Scientists and even the UN have repeatedly exposed the puny impact of anti-money laundering efforts, yet the increasingly stark reality has been ignored for decades, and AML groupthink remains hostile to evidence challenging the dominant narrative.
United Nations slams AML’s 0.2% success rate
Seminal 2011 research paper exposed puny impact of anti-money laundering efforts.
Reagan redux: The nine most terrifying words in the English language
On his birthday we ask what the former president might say about “governance without government” on a global scale
Award-winning paper on AML effectiveness
Response to money laundering scandal: Evidence-informed or perception driven?
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Bob's superpower is effectiveness.
