LEGAL CHALLENGES AFFECTING OFFSHORE TRUSTS POST 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS

The phenomenal growth of offshore trusts valued in billions of dollars at the end of the last century as a result of its ability to attract, transfer and protect substantial sums of money from the settlor’s country to overseas jurisdictions with the potential to save, reduce, avoid and evade taxes have been subjected to critical examination by tax authorities, the courts, non-governmental organisations and the media, especially in the years following the 2008 financial crisis. The objective of this paper to briefly introduce the nature and uses of offshore is trusts and to focus on some of the important challenges they face in a hostile environment. An area of evolving interest is the secrecy issue inherent in offshore trusts which has been abused as a veil for tax avoidance/tax evasion.

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“Trump”—What Does the Name Signify? or, Protofascism and the Alt-Right

Cultural Politics an International Journal ◽

10.1215/17432197-4312844 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 1-19 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Matthew Flisfeder

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Financial Crisis ◽

Historical Context ◽

The United States ◽

Right Wing ◽

2008 Financial Crisis ◽

Contemporary Politics ◽

Politics And Culture ◽

The Media ◽

The 2008 Financial Crisis

This article examines the rise of the alt-right and Donald Trump’s successful campaign for president of the United States in the context of three overlapping contradictions: that of subversion in postmodern culture and politics, that between the democratic and commercial logics of the media, and that of the failure of the Left in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. The article looks at the rise of “Trumpism” and the new brand of white nationalist and misogynistic culture of the so-called alt-right in its historical context to show how it is consistent with but also distinguished from previous right-wing ideologies. More generally, the three contradictions presented here are proposed as explanations for understanding the mainstreaming of the alt-right in contemporary politics and culture.

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Do Crises Hit Female-Managed and Male-Managed Firms Differently? Evidence from the 2008 Financial Crisis

10.1596/34458 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Tanima Ahmed ◽

Silvia Muzi ◽

Kohei Ueda

Keyword(s):

Financial Crisis ◽

2008 Financial Crisis ◽

The 2008 Financial Crisis

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Mathematics without Apologies

10.23943/princeton/9780691175836.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Michael Harris

Keyword(s):

Number Theory ◽

Financial Crisis ◽

Pop Culture ◽

First Century ◽

2008 Financial Crisis ◽

Dinner Party ◽

Mathematical Life ◽

Personal Experiences ◽

The 2008 Financial Crisis ◽

Guided Tour

What do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answers, this book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes and fears of mathematicians in the twenty-first century, assembling material from a startlingly diverse assortment of scholarly, journalistic, and pop culture sources. Drawing on the author's personal experiences as well as the thoughts and opinions of mathematicians from Archimedes and Omar Khayyám to such contemporary giants as Alexander Grothendieck and Robert Langlands, the book reveals the charisma and romance of mathematics as well as its darker side. In this portrait of mathematics as a community united around a set of common intellectual, ethical, and existential challenges, the book touches on a wide variety of questions, such as: Are mathematicians to blame for the 2008 financial crisis? How can we talk about the ideas we were born too soon to understand? And how should you react if you are asked to explain number theory at a dinner party? The book takes readers on an unapologetic guided tour of the mathematical life, from the philosophy and sociology of mathematics to its reflections in film and popular music, with detours through the mathematical and mystical traditions of Russia, India, medieval Islam, the Bronx, and beyond.

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