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Scaife’s extraordinary self-financed and largely tax-deductible vendetta against Clinton demonstrated the impact that a single wealthy extremist could have on national affairs, and served as something of a dress rehearsal for the Kochs’ later war against Obama. Presidents might surround themselves with Secret Service agents and phalanxes of lawyers
... See moreJane Mayer • Dark Money
The Panama Papers indicated that the law firm created some 214,000 shell corporations—legal entities that had no employees, no officers, and no corporate activity except to serve as a clandestine repository for the money of wealthy tax dodgers. Sometimes, the firm put the money into “charities” or “foundations,” which can also be used to hide
... See moreT. R. Reid • A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System
Heller manages the art collections of six Wall Street money managers, several of whom are billionaires.
Sarah Thornton • Seven Days in the Art World
Unlike more modern forms of economic organization, in which individuals tend to deal with many buyers and sellers in an open market, the households of the closed village joined together to operate like an informal corporation, or a large family, not in an open marketplace but in a closed system where all the economic transactions of the village
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