| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 335 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-315) and index. |
| Contents |
Nazis and radical priests -- Tropical paradises -- Name of the game -- Rise of the global banksters -- How to beat the game -- Full speed -- The North Star -- The art of secrecy -- The Vikings lose their Ferraris -- Combing the monster -- Journalistic firepower -- Profitable princelings -- Follow the leaks -- Trouble ahead, trouble behind -- Fortune favors the bold -- Collaboration triumphs -- The wave breaks -- The secrecy world enters the White House -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale. Jake Bernstein offers a disturbing and sobering view of how the world really works and raises crucial questions about financial and legal institutions we may once have trusted. |
| Subject |
Panama Papers.
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Tax evasion.
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Tax havens.
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Political corruption.
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Money laundering.
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Financial disclosure.
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Finance, Public -- Corrupt practices.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Banks & Banking.
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TRUE CRIME / White Collar Crime.
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LAW / Business & Financial.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Bernstein, Jake, author. Secrecy world First edition. New York : Henry Holt and Company, [2017] 9781250126696 (DLC) 2017037165 |
| ISBN |
9781250126689 (hardcover) |
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1250126681 (hardcover) |
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