New Zealand: the World’s Tiniest Stock Exchange, ‘a Big Ponzi Scheme’, and Other Crazy Tales From John Key’s Financial Services Hub
New Zealand’s Offshore Financial Services Providers: a new sampling of strange creatures
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Welcome to the Great Australian Scab Grab
Australia is in the grip of the greatest economic scab grab of my lifetime
Read more...Has the Time Come to Consider Criminalising Tax Avoidance?
A rare call for getting tougher with a widely practiced white collar crime, tax avoidance.
Read more...#panamapapers – Why Critic Craig Murray Needs the Scorecard Before He Can Name The Players
Craig Murray keeps jumping the gun with his panamapapers pieces
Read more...Is an Aussie Debt Crisis Around the Corner?
Australia’s macro numbers are looking more worrisome by the minute. Is this a trajectory to a debt crisis?
Read more...Mossack Fonseca: The New Zealand Connection
A little sniff at the New Zealand operations of notorious Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca
Read more...New Zealand Foreign Trusts: Chickens Coming Home to Roost
After many warnings were ignored, New Zealand Foreign Trusts are now damaging NZ’s reputation overseas
Read more...John Helmer: Autopsy of MH17 Crash and the Dutch Report
A detailed discussion of the Dutch Safety Board report on the downing of MH17.
Read more...TPP Intellectual Property Chapter is “A Disaster for Global Health”
Yet another damming take on the TPP.
Read more...How Likely are Investor Suits Under the TPP?
This post is written from the perspective of Australia, and assesses the risk of Investor-State Dispute Settlement litigation. And one has to wonder how well those cheery assurances of “Nah, the US is never a target of these investor suits” will hold up in practice.
Read more...TPP: It’s Not a Deal, It’s Not a Trade Deal, and It’s Not a Done Deal
We don’t have the TPP text, ISDS is just as bad as it’s always been, and deals like this have been beaten before.
Read more...Questus Global Capital Market, Scam Stock: an Update
Updating the bizarre story of Questus Global Capital Market, a New Brunswick-incorporated, GXG-listed, New-Zealand-FSP-brokered company of monstrously fraudulent aspect that had apparently ensnared a Malaysian billionaire, various US-based small businesses and retail investors, and a couple of princes from the royal families of Kuwait and Abu Dhabi.
Read more...London Capital and the Bryan Cook – Thomas Yi Scam Spree, 2010 to 2015
Yves here. Richard Smith is on the trail of what looks to be his biggest international scam find ever, orders of magnitude larger than the usual below the radar single to low double digit million dollar/pound/euro operation that he has ferreted out in the past. And mind you, even though he focuses on the dubious […]
Read more...Power 8, Sponsor of Everton FC, Fulham FC and RCD Espanyol, is a $250Mn Pyramid Fraud
Power 8, Sponsor of Everton FC, Fulham FC and RCD Espanyol, is a $250Mn Pyramid Fraud.
Read more...Australian Trade Minister: TPP “Trade” Deal Unlikely
When a Liberal government in Australia won’t back Obama’s “deal is near” party line on the TPP, you know it’s on the verge of being officially dead.
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