{"id":8979,"date":"2012-07-22T10:02:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T09:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=8979"},"modified":"2012-07-22T10:03:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T09:03:15","slug":"how-the-super-rich-become-much-much-richer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=8979","title":{"rendered":"How the super rich become much much richer"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;A global super-rich elite has exploited gaps in cross-border tax rules to hide an extraordinary \u00a313 trillion ($21tn) of wealth offshore \u2013 as much as the American and Japanese GDPs put together \u2013 according to research commissioned by the campaign group Tax Justice Network.<\/p>\n<p>James Henry, former chief economist at consultancy McKinsey and an expert on tax havens, has compiled the most detailed estimates yet of the size of the offshore economy in a new report,\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.taxjustice.net\/cms\/front_content.php?idcat=148\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taxjustice.net\/cms\/front_content.php?idcat=148\">The Price of Offshore Revisited<\/a>, released exclusively to the\u00a0<em>Observer<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the &#8220;Observer&#8221; news item <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2012\/jul\/21\/global-elite-tax-offshore-economy\">here<\/a> and see a fuller analysis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2012\/jul\/21\/offshore-wealth-global-economy-tax-havens?intcmp=239\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A global super-rich elite has exploited gaps in cross-border tax rules to hide an extraordinary \u00a313 trillion ($21tn) of wealth offshore \u2013 as much as the American and Japanese GDPs put together \u2013 according to research commissioned by the campaign group Tax Justice Network. James Henry, former chief economist at consultancy McKinsey and an expert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8979"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8986,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979\/revisions\/8986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}