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  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Switzerland

Europe

A small open economy with an oversized banking and pharmaceutical sector, a currency that acts as a global safe haven, and an offshore wealth business whose secrecy model has been dismantled since 2008.

Books 9Recommenders 1

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  1. Swiss MadeR. James Breiding, 2012
  2. The King of OilDaniel Ammann, 2009
  3. Treasure IslandsNicholas Shaxson, 2011
The World for SaleThe World for Sale
T1 The World for Sale
Javier Blas, Jack Farchy · 2021
Open LibraryGoodreads

Glencore, Vitol, Trafigura and Cargill; the definitive book on the trading houses.

Nazi GoldNazi Gold
T2 Nazi Gold
Tom Bower · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Swiss bankers kept Jewish deposits and helped Nazis hide looted money.

The King of OilThe King of Oil
T2 The King of Oil
Daniel Ammann · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Marc Rich, the founder of modern commodity trading.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Treasure IslandsTreasure Islands
T2 Treasure Islands
Nicholas Shaxson · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

How offshore finance works, with Britain and the City of London at its centre.

Swiss MadeSwiss Made
T2 Swiss Made
R. James Breiding · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why a small country without resources produces so many world-leading companies.

The Hidden Wealth of NationsThe Hidden Wealth of Nations
T2 The Hidden Wealth of Nations
Gabriel Zucman · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

How much wealth is hidden in tax havens, and how to tax it.

Hitler's Silent PartnersHitler's Silent Partners
T3 Hitler's Silent Partners
Isabel Vincent · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads

Companion investigation into Swiss banks and looted wartime assets.

Lucifer's Banker
T3 Lucifer's Banker
Bradley Birkenfeld · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Insider: the UBS banker whose disclosure ended cross-border Swiss secrecy.

Meltdown
T3 Meltdown
Duncan Mavin · 2024
Open LibraryGoodreads

Closest book coverage: Archegos as the loss that broke Credit Suisse.

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