#panamapapers Offshore Funds: On the Run With (Almost) Nowhere to Go?
The owners of offshore funds really might be seeing their comeuppance.
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Paul Krugman Crosses the Line
Krugman is increasingly discrediting himself as a commentator on economics.
Read more...#panamapapers: Questioning the Picture Painted in the WSJ’s Interview With Jürgen Mossack
A sceptical look at Jürgen Mossack’s WSJ interview
Read more...Ireland: a Recovery Built on Sand
How official statistics exaggerate Ireland’s performance, largely due to its status as a tax haven/offshore financial center.
Read more...Bill Black: The Myth that Obama’s Taking Huge Contributions from Wall Street Was Fine
The notion that Obama and Clinton weren’t influenced by large Wall Street donations is laughable.
Read more...North Carolina Knowingly Allows Fox to Run State Pension Henhouse
North Carolina takes a big step backwards by allowing its sole state pension trustee take jobs that create glaring conflicts of interest.
Read more...Jamie Dimon Tells Us We Need to Leave Too Big to Fail Banks Alone
Jamie Dimon likes to write grandiose letters to shareholders. This year’s version is no exception.
Read more...Elizabeth Warren Flays Former Fed Official Who Saw No Evil on Subprime Loans, Currently Peddling Line That Regulation is Too Costly (to Banks, Natch)
Warren brutalizes a bank crony who has worn regulator’s clothes at the Fed and the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. Ouch.
Read more...#panamapapers – Why Critic Craig Murray Needs the Scorecard Before He Can Name The Players
Craig Murray keeps jumping the gun with his panamapapers pieces
Read more...New Zealand’s FMA, the Breder Suasso Conundrum, Mossack Fonseca, and #panamapapers
A quick look at Breder Suasso, a New Zealand FSP with historic links to disreputable Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca
Read more...Is an Aussie Debt Crisis Around the Corner?
Australia’s macro numbers are looking more worrisome by the minute. Is this a trajectory to a debt crisis?
Read more...Brexit: This is What We Call a Muppet Show
An update on the Brexit referendum.
Read more...Negative Interest Rates – Are There Any Positives?
The more you look at negative interest rates, the harder it is to find anything to like.
Read more...The US is Beginning to Dominate Global Investment Banking: Implications for Europe
Europe’s banks are in retreat from playing a global investment banking role.
Read more...Don Quijones: Brexit Meltdown at the Bank of England
The current and former governors of the Bank of England are singing from very different hymnals on the subject of Brexit.
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