Making money by making companies: another industry that is globalising, consolidating and shifting east. (2012 article about offshore company-creation firms: the many competitors of Panama's Mossack Fonseca)

The Panama Papers is a global investigation into the sprawling, secretive industry of offshore that the world's rich and powerful use to hide assets and skirt rules by setting up front companies in far-flung jurisdictions. Based on a trove of more than 11 million leaked files, the investigation exposes a cast of characters who use offshore companies to facilitate bribery, arms deals, tax evasion, financial fraud and drug trafficking.

Globalization is about rules, not trade, and the rules are skewed to the rich.

Panama Papers reveal Ian Cameron hired Bahamas residents, including a part-time bishop, to keep offshore company exempt

China appears to be censoring social media posts on the Panama Papers which reveal the financial activities of China's elite, including President Xi Jinping's brother-in-law.

Protests outside parliament after documents show Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson’s wife owned offshore firm with large claim on collapsed banks

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