Publications

The Panama Papers—the massive collection of leaked documents from Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm that helps set up offshore shell corporations—have already had political consequences. Iceland’s prime minister, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, resigned after the leak revealed that he had partly owned an offshore firm. Read more about The Panama Papers and Thomas Piketty

I have been asked by Science & Film to review the realism of EYE IN THE in terms of the new technologies we see deployed in the film. Most of the technologies employed in the film narrative have some basis in reality, though many are still in very early stages, or proof-of-concept, and remain far from the reliable and useful technologies depicted in the film. Read more about Dr. Peter Asaro on Drone Technology in Eye in the Sky

One of the people to suffer fallout from the Panama Papers leak is David Cameron, Britain’s prime minister. After a few days of equivocation, he was forced to admit that he had personally benefited from offshore financial arrangements that had been put in place by his father.

The publicly available evidence does not suggest that he did anything illegal. Nonetheless, this has led to political debate in Britain about the fairness of a tax system in which the rich and privileged are able to take advantage of offshore tax shelters and the like to limit their tax liability. Read more about A Financial Times columnist says that taxes have nothing to do with fairness. Here’s why he’s wrong.

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has started to release information based on a massive leak of information from a secretive Panamanian law firm that specializes in setting up shell corporations that can be used, for example, by people looking to hide their money from the taxman. Read more about A massive leak just revealed how the super-rich hide their money. Here’s what you need to know.