Corruption
Simon Wren-Lewis: A rotten corporate culture
” The problem is that the senior managers, the auditors and the Board are not in prison and have not even suffered any financial loss.” Simon Wren-Lewis tells it like it is. Read here
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Beancounters – The Triumph of the Accountants and How they broke Capitalism by Richard Brooks
Book review by Atul K. Shah As Private Eye journalist, Richard Brooks has long been responsible for exposing corporate corruption, especially around tax avoidance and evasion. One story kept on repeating in his research – […]
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Prem Sikka: Tax-haven transparency won’t stop money laundering in Britain
Money laundering is not an accident, aberration, or crime. It is an institution. Read here
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El Pais: Madrid regional premier Cristina Cifuentes quits after video of her shoplifting emerges
This story is a metaphor for much of Europe’s political elite: A master’s degree from a university that had absolutely no basis in reality. All records have been lost. Shoplifting (she claims to have paid […]
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The Irish Times – Spain: Madrid regional president faces fake degree allegations
This is truly a remarkable story – and that in a nation where the governmng Partido Popular claims to be protecting the rule of law in Catalonia. Apparently there is no law for members of […]
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Buzz Feed News: The UK Refused To Raid A Company Suspected Of Money Laundering, Citing Its Tory Donations
Cash donations are supposed to be important for democracy. Large cash donation must therefore be more important for democracy. This looks like large cash donations buys you a get out of jail free card. Is […]
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Romania Insider: New bribery investigation in Romania targets ex- finance minister, former MP
Romania’s series of corruption investigations seems to be endless. Romanian politicians have however found a solution to solve this: disband the public prosecutor’s office and there will be no more investigations. With solutions like this […]
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Corporate Europe Observatory – Quiet on the set! The EU is negotiating trade deals…
Following calls for openness and public participation, the European Commission now advertises its trade negotiations as transparent and inclusive. But crucial information about EU trade deals are still kept from citizens. Even member state governments […]
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Reckless opportunists: Elites at the end of the Establishment by Aeron Davis
Book review by David Shirreff Oxford, Cambridge and the old school tie used to be a passport to the pinnacles of what was known as the Establishment. Things have changed, but not much, and not […]
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Dani Rodrik: What’s Been Stopping the Left?
Rodrik does not go far enough in his analysis. The problem is that the traditional Left, especially in Europe, has become completely corrupted. It has been occupied by opportunists who have one goal: getting rich. […]