Saturday, January 8, 2011

ARTICLE: On tax, shadow banking and the social contract


The shadow banks are the ones that escaped the social contract: the free riders on the backs of everyone else.  The point is that both the secrecy jurisdictions, and the overlapping shadow banking system, have been used for the purposes of escape: escape from tax, and escape from financial regulation (and, often enough, escape from criminal laws and various other obligations and restraints of society.)

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