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Finance
Bloomberg: Ex-HSBC Banker Pleads Guilty in $1.8 Billion French Tax Case
The former chief executive officer of HSBC Holdings Plc’s Swiss private bank pleaded guilty to helping wealthy clients hide assets worth at least 1.6 billion euros ($1.8 billion) as French prosecutors flex their muscles to […]
Economics
Grace Blakeley: The US-China trade war is a distraction from the true failures of liberal globalisation
‘The problem isn’t Mexican migrants or Chinese factory workers — it’s the global elite that built an economic model so extractive, exploitative and unstable that it has provoked the kind of nationalist backlash not seen […]
EU politics
Robert de Vries and Aaron Reeves: Why do people care more about benefit ‘scroungers’ than billions lost to the rich?
The authors identify a phenomenon that we saw in the election of Donald Trump as president of the USA: People identify with the rich and powerful – to which they will never belong – rather than […]
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