The financial web connecting Afghanistan, the US, and Switzerland - a podcast by NPR

What happens when a country's foreign reserves are stored in another country, and then part of that is run by a third? No, it's not the start of a bad joke. It's the story of Afghanistan, the U.S., and Switzerland.

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