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The David McWilliams Podcast

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The Story of a Shotgun Wedding

Credit Suisse went bust because of its wealth management arm, right? That's a really nice expression of taking really rich fuckers money. But the reason Credit Suisse and UBS involved themselves in what was clearly a shotgun marriage is because Credit Suisse is full of Russian money. I have been told on very good authority that a significant amount of its private wealth is Russian mafia oligarch money. And this is why it had to be bought over by a Swiss company, so they'd keep it in the family. If it was a bought-off for an American company, that money would be sanctioned straight away, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah,Yeah. So the reason there was

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