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A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It already rivals the size of the illicit drug trade. And it’s about to get bigger and much more powerful. The Economist’s Sue-Lin Wong follows a trail that starts with the collapse of a bank in rural Kansas to uncover a global, underground scam economy built around human trafficking, corruption and money laundering. Can it be stopped? To listen to the full series subscribe to Economist Podcasts+.

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A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It already rivals the size of the illicit drug trade. And it’s about to get bigger and much more powerful. The Economist’s Sue-Lin Wong follows a trail that starts with the collapse of a bank in rural Kansas to uncover a global, underground scam economy built around human trafficking, corruption and money laundering. Can it be stopped? To listen to the full series subscribe to Economist Podcasts+.

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Problematic adds on the episode

6 Mar

Stelyze

I love the podcast and the story is very gripping! One remark about the adds on it though… I just got one for one of the crypto trading platform « kraken » which feels very inappropriate. Would you advertise cooking knives on a murder story? Second add is the economist telling us to subscribe when the podcast is already reserved for subscribers… I put 4 stars because it hinders the experience.
Fascinating and terrifying in equal measure

2 days ago

9stevo

Everyone in the world should listen to this. It is absolutely worth a few hours of your time. It’s. Unfortunately you don’t need an economist subscription to listen but it’s well well worth it. I ended up binging the whole thing in a few days. Fascinating, terrifying; an exceptional piece of recorded journalism. Kudos to you Sue-Lin you should be very proud of this piece of work.
Investigative journalism at it best

4 days ago

Hear_here

This show really combines the best of top journalism, comprehensive investigation, gripping storytelling, and expert podcast production. I hope there will be more to come as the story is far from over unfortunately. I know they are looking into this and this show has probably become a great tool for acquiring subscribers. But I do hope they will find a way for all to share this with family and friends as this topic could touch everyone’s life.
This is the scam

15 May

CC EC1

They tell you AFTER you’ve listened to the first one that you need to subscribe to listen to them all. Deceitful in the extreme. Ruined my impression of the Economist, where I actually used to subscribe for years and had a good impression of.

A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It already rivals the size of the illicit drug trade. And it’s about to get bigger and much more powerful. The Economist’s Sue-Lin Wong follows a trail that starts with the collapse of a bank in rural Kansas to uncover a global, underground scam economy built around human trafficking, corruption and money laundering. Can it be stopped? To listen to the full series subscribe to Economist Podcasts+.