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|SourceURL=http://www.taxjustice.net/cms/front_content.php |SourceName=The Tax Justice Network
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|Author=James Henry
 
|Author=James Henry
 
|Date=22 July 2012
 
|Date=22 July 2012
|Note='''This report is about the flight of wealth from countries that produce it to a tiny number of bank accounts in tax haven countries.'''
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|Subject=Tax Havens
 
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It is hardly news that a small number of people are extraordinarily rich. But it ought to be news that just 0.001% of the world’s population — that’s one one-thousandth of one percent — or about 92,000 people have $10 trillion in assets stashed in these tax havens. In total, 10 million people worldwide hold offshore assests. The study shows that they total at least $21 trillion, possibly $32 trillion. That's about equivalent to the combined GDP's of the USA and Japan in 2011!
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|Description=Just 0.001% of the world’s population — that’s one one-thousandth of one percent — or about 92,000 people have $10 trillion in assets stashed in tax havens.
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|Note= In total, 10 million people worldwide hold offshore assests. The study shows that they total at least $21 trillion, possibly $32 trillion. That's about equivalent to the 2011 annual GDP's of the USA and Japan combined!
  
 
Where did this money come from? Well, that depends on how you account for capital formation. Does profit come from work or financial manipulation? The developed world used to favor the former, but work gets your hands dirty rather than getting you rich quickly. So, like earlier empires, the actual work is farmed out to colonies and the hugely enriching stuff kept at home, to wit: finance and the military might needed to enforce its extraction.  
 
Where did this money come from? Well, that depends on how you account for capital formation. Does profit come from work or financial manipulation? The developed world used to favor the former, but work gets your hands dirty rather than getting you rich quickly. So, like earlier empires, the actual work is farmed out to colonies and the hugely enriching stuff kept at home, to wit: finance and the military might needed to enforce its extraction.  
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Concentration of wealth is the goal of empire once it becomes established, and the Anglo-American-NATO Empire is no different. Wealth extracted from colonies (dependant nations - from their viewpoint, stolen) is concentrated at the Empire's centres where it is further concentrated into the hands of a miniscule proportion of the population, who proceed in the manner outlined in this report
 
Concentration of wealth is the goal of empire once it becomes established, and the Anglo-American-NATO Empire is no different. Wealth extracted from colonies (dependant nations - from their viewpoint, stolen) is concentrated at the Empire's centres where it is further concentrated into the hands of a miniscule proportion of the population, who proceed in the manner outlined in this report
  
It is a '''MUST READ''' for anyone seeking to understand the world they are currently surviving in.
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It is ''highly recommended'' for anyone seeking to understand the world they are currently surviving in.
 
 
 
|ContentsTitle=Estimating the Price of Offshore
 
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