This taxcast examines the Tax Justice Network’s new Corporate Tax Haven Index for what’s wrong with the taxation system and how to fix it.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
How a Central Asian Business Empire Dines Out on British Secrecy
Using the UK’s lax corporate transparency and accountability regime, international businesses can, in effect, mask interests and ownership at home.
Are Cryptocurrencies the First Crack in the Wall to Regulate Facebook?
Like Icarus, the social media monopoly is flying too close to the sun and generating much regulatory heat, which could eventually lead to its downfall.
A Look at the Poor People’s Campaign: Theology and Ideology
“The poor you will always have with you.” Really?
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/28/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Temporarily open thread.
Where Brexit Goes, the Law Shall Follow
Rather than a unified mass transition out of London to another singular hub, the financial industry is using Brexit as an opportunity to diversify. And lawyers are moving to Dublin.
Live Blog: Democrat Presidential Primary Debate #2 in Miami (Second Night)
Open thread on the second Democrat Presidential debate.
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/27/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Democrat debate, Castro, De Blasio, Inslee, Festival of Sanders, Trump, Warren, census and gerrymandering SCOTUS decisions, GDP, manufacturing, USSR collapse and carbon, white working class, feminism, dark patterns
Private Equity and “Institutional” Investor Owned U.K. Utility Engaged in Massive Fraud, Regulatory Evasions, Worker Coercion, Caused “Catastrophic” Environmental Damage
Abuses like raw sewage on beaches and faking regulatory filings make a U.K. water utility a new low in privatization scandals.
Robert Reich: Here’s Why We Need to Break Up Big Tech
Monopolies aren’t good for anyone except for the monopolists, especially when they can influence our elections and control how Americans receive information.
Brexit: Impacts and Prospects
While the apocalyptic predictions of the Remain campaign have failed to materialize, the economic damage has nevertheless been significant.
