The Geopolitics & Power Podcast

Nicholas Shaxson | The Cancerous Plumbing Of Financial Secrecy

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