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Tax Me If You Can – (Tax Havens) — [VIDEO]
Following Tyler Cowen’s post at Marginal Revolution: – The truth about tax havens – Guardian – Tax Havens (PDF file) – Guardian – Secrecy Jurisdictions – Financial Secrecy Index
Posted in Business, Business Administration, Finance, Politics, The Global Economy
Tagged banking, banking system, banking systems, Cayman Islands, corporations, enterprises, Finance, Financial Secrecy Index, Liechtenstein, Nicholas Shaxson, offshore banking, Rudolf Elmer, Secrecy Jurisdictions, Switzerland, tax havens, Tax Optimization, Treasure Islands, Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens, US banking system
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Red Bull’s event marketing lead to the death of an athlete performing a stunt for money.
Zurich, Switzerland: Ueli Gegenschatz, 37, died a few days later.
2 Japanese busted with $134 *BILLION* in US Bonds at Swiss border
Guardia di Finanza – Sequestrati a Chiasso titoli USA per novantasei miliardi di euro Wiki News Daily Kos The Market Ticker investigates. The contraband securities valued at 134 billion U.S. dollars are apparently real. The latest news… On that date … Continue reading
NewsFutures’ hyper marketese on their prediction market consultancy and software package for enterprise prediction markets
NewsFutures: Top-10 reasons why NewsFutures is the ideal partner to harness the wisdom of your crowd 1.) Integrated Solutions We offer complete solutions, not just great software. This approach delivers a much higher success rate and enables the client organization … Continue reading
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David Pennock’s European bosses have a screw loose.
Yahoo Relocating European HQ From UK To Switzerland. – I can’t believe that this is happening. Switzerland is the place to locate… a bank… —not an Internet startup/giant. This is crazy. Switzerland is a dull, bleak, and boring country. It’s … Continue reading
Prediction Market Contradictions — NewsFutures vs. Pop Sci PPX on the Higgs boson
Which play-money prediction exchange (betting exchange) should you believe?? – Pop Sci PPX predicts that the Higgs boson will be discovered by the FermiLab in Chicago, U.S.A. – NewsFutures predicts that the Higgs boson will be discovered by the CERN … Continue reading
Who will discover the Higgs boson first?
The CERN in Switzerland or the FermiLab in Illinois, U.S.A.? The New York Times has a 6-page dossier on CERN’s brand-new giant machine. by Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times — CERN will find the Higgs particle first: © … Continue reading
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Market Prices & Probabilities, Science
Tagged Illinois, Switzerland, the New York Times, United States
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Who will discover the Higgs boson first?
The CERN in Switzerland or the FermiLab in Illinois, U.S.A.? Turned out that the American physicists of FermiLab designed an equipment at CERN… and that equipment blew up in a bang. Failure due to miscalculations. As a result, the CERN’s … Continue reading
Has the FermiLab in Chicago discovered the elusive Higgs particle?
They are not sure, yet. They are still analyzing data. (The FermiLab is located in Batavia, Illinois, about 45 miles West from Chicago. The CERN, located in between Switzerland and France, is their competitor; it’s the world’s largest particle physics … Continue reading
World Economic Forum – Annual Meeting – @ Davos, Switzerland – 2007-01-24~28
World Economic Forum – Annual Meeting (2007) – @ Davos, Switzerland – 2007-01-24~28