About a year ago Dan Mitchell of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity got very heated about trying to arrange a debate with me. I refused to take part in an event he organised. I have no respect for his organisation. But although he represented otherwise, I did not decline to debate with him per se. I said I would if someone reputable organised it to ensure fair play.
Well, now they have. Offshore Alert in the USA have organised a conference in Florida in April this year where Mitchell and I will meet in a debate, billed as follows:
OFFSHORE FINANCIAL CENTERS: ARE THEY HEALTHY FOR THE GLOBAL ECONOMY?
A debate between pro-offshore and anti-offshore factions on whether OFCs play a positive or negative role in world finance.
PANELISTS:
Yes, they are:
Daniel J. Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute (USA);and
Richard Hay, International Tax Principal, Stikeman Elliott (UK).No, they aren't:
Jack Blum, Co-Author, 'Financial Havens, Banking Secrecy & Money Laundering' (USA);and
Richard Murphy, Research Director, Tax Justice Network (UK).
I'm very much looking forward to this. Jack is a great guy to partner. Amongst his many achievements was cracking BCCI. Mitchell and Hay have got a problem on their hands.
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Richard – would be interested in hearing this or seeing a transcript/report if poss when it happens.
Watch out – Florida has about as many ‘gators living there as people.
Best news I have heard in a very long time. Murphy and Blum 10 : Mitchell and hey 0 and thats meant to be a British socker score.
Richard, Mitchell and hey are minos compared to Rubishka, who you destroyed in 2006.
Richard Hay is a lawyer who thinks he can do economics and statistics.
See http://www.jerseyfinance.je/_support/uploadedFiles/008%20-%20Richard%20Hay%2024.04.07.ppt#1 for a recent presentation of his where he claimed for instance that that lowering coprporate taxes increased (global) revenues in developped countries, based on a graph. No correlation coefficient, no Pearson’s r, no claim for increased volume, no causality, no nothing.
Roger Rabbit,
You can hear this debate live at the 6th OffshoreAlert Financial Due Diligence Conference: ‘The Unexpurgated Offshore’ this April 13 – 15, 2008 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL USA.
For more information visit the official conference website at http://www.offshorealertconference.com
Is there a transcript of this?
A comment on the Guernsey local press ‘blog’ http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/yourshout is citing Dan Mitchell as some sort of knowledge to behold. It would be good to be able to counter it with a link to a debunking of his opinions. I’ve googled to no effect.
Thanks
Lawrence
Seehttp://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2008/04/16/mitchell-v-murphy/
and http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2008/04/14/do-ofcs-contribute-to-the-health-of-the-glocal-economy/
Mitchell put up a pile of slides about Adam Smith
No one understood why
It’s why I guess people reckoned I won
Richard