Treasure Islands - Nicholas Shaxson [167]
Lord Mayor of London, 71, 73, 76, 85, 244n69–71
Lucas, Robert, 61
Luxembourg, 3, 14, 16–17, 26, 28, 69, 97, 116, 128, 134, 138, 161, 172, 212–13, 235n14,15, 249n5
Macau, 27, 106
Macmillan, Harold, 59
MacShane, Denis, 69
Madeira, 18
Madoff, Bernie, 218
Malaysia, 115–16, 184
Malta, 27
Manhattan, 23–4, 27, 69, 114, 134, 178, 239n9
See Wall Street
Manton, Peter, 184
Manuel, Trevor, 147
Marcos, Ferdinand, 141–2
Marcos, Imelda, 141–2
Marshall, Alfred, 50
Marshall Islands, 22–3, 236n31
Marshall Plan of 1948, 58–9
Marx, Karl, 51, 75, 86, 104
Matthews, Gary, 205, 207–8
Mauritius, 16, 23, 27, 147–8
McClatchy’s, 214
McDonald’s, 51
McDowell, Harris B., 198
McIntyre, Bob, 159, 170
McIntyre, Michael J., 117–19, 169
meatpacking industry, 35–42, 47
Merhet, Maurice, 189
Merrill/BoA, 68
Mexico, 9–10, 30, 58, 142–3, 218
MHT Bank, 141
Miami, Florida, 89, 101, 111–12, 143, 157, 165, 218
Microsoft, 14
Middle East, 6, 33, 54, 104, 137
Midland Bank (Britain), 63–6, 172
Minnesota, 193
MI6 (British Secret Intelligence Service), 18, 235n21
Mitchell, Austin, 205, 249n13, 252n13
Mitchell, Daniel J., 150–63, 170
Mitterrand, François, 4
mob/mafia, 7, 20, 22, 29, 88–90, 97, 113, 120, 131, 150–1, 175, 192
Monaco, 17, 26
monetarism, 76–8, 114, 159
money creation, 76–8, 114
money supply, 78, 114, 159
Montserrat, 87
Moon, Sun Myung, 161
Morgan Guaranty bank, 75, 81
Morgan Stanley, 20, 22, 68, 103, 106, 125
Morgenthau, Henry, 38, 54–5, 65
Morgenthau, Robert, 27–8, 69, 134–6, 178
Moscow, 10, 71, 75, 81, 137, 249n16, 250n20
Moscow Narodny Bank, 71, 75, 81
Mourant du Feu & Jeune, 201–2, 207
Mugabe, Robert, 156
Mugniyah, Imad, 178
Muirhead, Patrick, 187
multinational corporations, 10, 11–16, 25–6, 35–43, 57, 108, 112–13, 132, 145–7, 216–17, 221–2, 227, 234n12, 239n10
central problem with taxing, 41
history of, 35–43
and tax havens, 13–16
and zero taxation, 12–15
See Vestey brothers Murdoch, Rupert, 7
Murphy, Richard, 112–13, 125, 159, 217, 222, 234n5
MySpace, 7
Nasser, Abdel, 65
Nauru, 27
Naylor, Tom, 97–8, 115
Nazi Germany, 49, 59, 98, 156–7, 234n13
Netherlands, 17, 27, 39, 111, 117–18, 138, 143, 147, 192
Netherlands Antilles, 111, 117–18, 143
Nevada, 22, 44, 120, 125, 223
New Deal, 31, 109, 114, 131, 200
New Jersey, 39, 104, 108
New York City, 18
See Manhattan; Wall Street Newfoundland, 38
News Corporation, 7, 20, 22
Nidal, Abu, 133, 135
Nigeria, 1, 17, 30, 58, 97, 105, 127, 183, 248n43
Nixon, Richard, 98
Norman Conquest (1066), 71–2
Norman Star (ship), 35, 38, 46
North Africa, 1, 26–7
North Korea, 17, 28, 122, 131, 133, 188
Northern Ireland, 73
O’Neill, Martin, 158
O’Neill, Paul, 160–2
Obama, Barack, 51, 106, 110, 125, 153
Offshore Magic Circle, 25, 201–2
offshore system
banana example, 13–14, 42, 108
and capital, 98
centers of, 16–23
See British tax havens; European tax havens; U.S. tax havens
and criminality: See criminal money
defined, 6–8, 11–12
and deflection, 166–7
as ecosystem, 25
as “efficient”: See “efficiency”
employment in, 171–92
features of
See double taxation; laddering; “on request” information; reinvoicing; “round-tripping”; shell companies; tax deferrals; transfer pricing; trusts; usury; zero taxation
and inequality: See inequalities
and lending, 76–8
central figure of
See City of London
opposite of: See John Maynard Keynes
and ordinary citizens: See ordinary citizens
overview of, 6–10, 11–16, 23, 25–8
and “plausible deniability,” 167
rationalizations for, 156–8, 165–7
reform of: See reform and regulation, 169–70
and silence, 30, 170, 171–80
and slavery, 140
statistics on, 11, 26, 28–9, 32
and tax havens: See tax havens
and taxation, 144–8
as unpatriotic, 39–43
See multinational corporations; tax havens
oil, 1–4, 7–9, 17, 19–20, 22–3, 36, 39, 60, 68–9, 82, 105, 107–8, 114, 127, 131, 133, 137–9, 145, 165, 225, 246n2, 249n18, 250n25
Oklahoma, 120
Okonjo-Iweala, Ngozi, 127
Olenicoff, Oleg, 178
“on request” information, 167–9
onshore tax reform, 224–5
ordinary citizens, 7, 15, 20–1, 29,