Videos are catching up with me. This is from a conference on 31 January on international finance and small island states, which was (overall) heavily inclined to find sympathy with them, which might explain the tone I adopted. The speaker who followed me said I was English was a Mediterranean temperament. That may in part have been based on the Q&A where I was persistently questioned on Hong Kong: what the questioner did not realise was that Hong Kong is not western style capitalist now: it is an outpost of state capitalism, which is not the same, I would contend.
The video you actually want is number three of this series. If you go to Youtube it is an option on the right hand menu. I can't find another way to get there right now, annoyingly.
The thesis presented is that from my book, Dirty Secrets.
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Richard,
I saw your talk and I couldnt quite understand what the hong-kong question was about. Yes, there might be an issue with you conflating the imagery of tax havens like Guersey to more vibrant ones like Singapore or Hong-Kong but by being tax havens/secrecy jurisdictions i.e. offering wealth hiding laws and services, aren’t they playing a part in undermining other countries’ societies, especially when considered how high these vibrant economies are on the financial secrecy index when sorted by global scale weight(which I assume is a measure of their influence in the world as a tax haven?). Your opinion?
Of course they are both secrecy jurisidictions
But their economic environments differ: HK as an effective part of China’s is unique and not worth pondering on at the length the questioner wanted, in my opinion
Thanks! Also, can you point to a layperson’s guide to the Financial Secrecy Index?
http://www.financialsecrecyindex.com/
Richard, this is not a “video” it is a recorded conference link. No better than recording an audio link. Actually I think it’s worse, as with an audio link recorded in this way, you just listen to the words.
I have discussed with you over the years that properly produced video would work for you & Tax Research to get key points across on complex issues that lay people can not understand.
Hope you are well Richard.
I’m completely shattered right now Min, but by Monday I’ll be fine
I agree with you technically
There’s just budgets and time in the way…..