New Zealand Foreign Trusts: the Scandals, the Reforms, and Some Throat-Clearing From the EU
NZ’s promised Foreign Trust reforms still don’t look quite right
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Brexit Realism: Maybe Voters Were Not Dumb
By David Miles, Imperial College Business School. Originally published as a chapter in the VoxEU ebook, Brexit Beckons: Thinking ahead by leading economists, available to download free of charge To some, the Brexit referendum was a failure by economists to persuade UK voters that leaving the EU would entail major economic costs. This column argues […]
Read more...Scotland Disses Theresa May by Reviving Anti-Inequality Law She Loathes
Another min-joust between the UK and Scotland, this on an innovative anti-inequality stipulation.
Read more...New Zealand Offshore Company Agents: Mossack Fonseca is Far From Alone
The global footprint of agents selling NZ companies and trusts
Read more...Another Nail in the Brexit Fantasy Coffin: Germany’s Car Makers Are Not Cowed
More evidence that the idea that the UK would have a negotiating advantage in Brexit talks is not well founded.
Read more...What Next for the EU?
An informative, high-level overview of how the EU got to where it is now, its internal contradictions, and the prospects for resolving them.
Read more...Dodgy New Zealand Companies: Mapping Their Global Footprint Since 2009
New Zealand’s scam companies: a map of their global footprint
Read more...More Doubts About Brexit Fantasies
The UK still appears to be ignoring the EU’s negotiating boundaries on Brexit.
Read more...Financial Times Picks Up on Irish Growth Blarney Story…. That We Reported Months Ago
Irish growth is even phonier than the media would have you believe.
Read more...The UK Vote to Leave European Union
A judicious, high level overview of the Brexit vote and its implications, the big one being that it moves Britain to the right.
Read more...Brexit Empty Threats: The UK’s Fantasy of Becoming a Big Tax Haven
How a naive idea about the UK becoming a big fat tax haven to stick it to the EU reveals a lot about official and pundit thinking.
Read more...Crisis After Brexit: Let Us Put An End to the Old Europe of Denigrators
Europe’s tall order for combatting Brexit: “What is called for is a union so good that people will want more of it.”
Read more...Bill Black: BREXIT – Tony Blair
Tony Blair sides with the bankers and against the popular will. Quelle surprise!
Read more...Brexit: Huge Spanner in the Works – Negotiation of New UK Trade Deals Verboten Till Exit Complete
“Tortuous” does not even begin to describe how hard it will be for the UK to strike post Brexit trade deals. Negotiations cannot begin until the UK has left the EU.
Read more...Brexit: Why the UK is Unlikely to Have a General Election Soon
Explaining the not-well-understood UK general election rules and how they play into the Brexit calculation.
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