{"id":8406,"date":"2011-01-12T09:31:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T07:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=8406"},"modified":"2011-01-12T12:54:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T10:54:28","slug":"not-everyone-likes-treasure-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/01\/12\/not-everyone-likes-treasure-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Not everyone likes &#8216;Treasure Islands&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems not everyone is convinced by Nick Shaxson's new book, '<a href=\"http:\/\/treasureislands.org\/\">Treasure Islands'.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anthony Travers of Cayman Finance is one of them.<\/p>\n<p>I guess his argument would be more credible if he didn't resort to words like '<a href=\"http:\/\/www.c27dev.ky\/news\/item\/8277\">imbecile'<\/a> or suggest that every criticism of Cayman is the politics of envy. But he's allowed his opinion, and having published favourable comment I thought I should be balanced and give him a shout too.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Nick Shaxson has answered the accusation <a href=\"http:\/\/treasureislands.org\/the-cayman-islands-travers-says-im-an-imbecile\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems not everyone is convinced by Nick Shaxson&#8217;s new book, &#8216;Treasure Islands&#8217;. Anthony Travers of Cayman Finance is one of them. I guess his<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/01\/12\/not-everyone-likes-treasure-islands\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,80,32,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cayman","category-secrecy-jurisdictions","category-tax-havens","category-tax-justice-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}