The Geopolitics & Power Podcast

Nicholas Shaxson | The Cancerous Plumbing Of Financial Secrecy

Aug 17, 2022
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1
Introduction
00:00 β€’ 5min
2
Tax Havens
04:44 β€’ 3min
3
Ecuador - Is the UK Screwing Over Ecuador?
07:53 β€’ 3min
4
The Freedom of Tax Havens
10:50 β€’ 4min
5
The Tax-Haven System Is Flipping This on Its Head
14:30 β€’ 3min
6
How Much Wealth Are You Holding in the World?
17:03 β€’ 5min
7
The Tools of the Financial Secrecy
21:47 β€’ 2min
8
Shell Companies in the British Virgin Islands
23:42 β€’ 5min
9
The Grandpa Gives His Assets Away Into the Trust
28:26 β€’ 2min
10
What's the Incentive for a Corporation to Own Assets?
30:48 β€’ 4min
11
What's the Magic of Inner Trust?
34:35 β€’ 2min
12
What Are Bearer Bonds?
36:28 β€’ 2min
13
Is Bank Secrecy Still Alive and Well?
38:26 β€’ 4min
14
The Collateral Damage of Financial Secrecy Tools
42:09 β€’ 6min
15
Drug Cartel - How to Survive in the Caribbean
47:39 β€’ 2min
16
Is Globalization Gearing Down a Little Bit?
49:59 β€’ 4min
17
You Know, You're a Traitor, You Know?
54:19 β€’ 4min
18
Google, Apple, Ireland, Apple and Ireland, You Have a Big Bone to Pick With Google?
57:57 β€’ 2min
19
How You Could Shift Profits With Google
59:44 β€’ 5min
20
Tax Havens Are a Part of the Inequality Problem
01:04:21 β€’ 4min
21
Nick Jackson, I'm Sorry About the Technology Falling Us
01:08:50 β€’ 3min