Economy and Society

some exemples on YouTube:

United Kingdom:

• Guernsey Offshore Accounts Tax Evasion Scandal, 1.50 min, uploaded by publicInterests, Nov. 14, 2012: The sensational Carroll Foundation Trust billion dollars offshore tax evasion fraud scandal which is now encircling 10 Downing Street and the Conservative Party has revealed that the new explosive FBI Scotland Yard prosecution files have named the Queen’s bankers Coutts & Co in this case of international importance. Sources have confirmed that the dossiers contain forged and falsified Coutts & Co Strand bank accounts which are directly linked to Coutts Bank Guernsey wealth management offshore banking arrangements that effectively impulsed this massive tax fraud heist operation which stretches the globe over a staggering sixteen years;  

about Greece:

• Tax Evasion and Corruption in Greece (Friedrich Schneider), 25.34 min, uploaded by MrXarisios, Sept. 27, 2012;

about Africa:

• Africa losing billions in tax evasion, 2.09 min, uploaded by Al Jazeera English, on Jan 16, 2012;

about Italy:

• Silvio Berlusconi Tax Fraud, 5.08 min, uploaded by TYT Sports, Oct 27, 2012: AC Milan owner and president Silvio Berlusconi has been convicted of tax fraud. This is the first time in his long tenure as Italy’s prime minister that he is ACTUALLY convicted of a crime. The list is long of wrongdoings from Berlusconi and finally it appears he will be punished;

about USA:

• Identity Theft and Tax Fraud: Growing Problems for the Internal Revenue Service, uploaded by oversightandreform, Nov 4 to Nov. 30, 2011: Part 1; 120.09 min, Part 4, 129.09 min;
• IRS E-file and Identity Theft, uploaded by ??, June 2, 2011: Part 1, 6.10 min; Part 2, 124.42 min;
• Congressman Marchant on Identity Theft and Tax Fraud.wmv, 5.32 min,
• see also the internal revenue service irs channel.

see also on YouTube:

NYU Law:

• Offshore Accounts, Tax Amnesties and Tax Compliance from the Graduate Tax Program at NYU Law, 78.03 min, uploaded by NYU School of Law, Apr 5, 2012;
• Bruce Cain: Corruption Confusion: A Black Hole in the Election Law Universe, 70.38 min, uploaded by nyuschooloflaw, Oct 19, 2012: … Corruption confusion–the conflation of material corruption and democratic distortion–is pervasive in American political reform discussions and underlies the institutional corruption critique of US politics. In fact, the appropriate uses of material motives and distorting inequalities are contested issues of democratic design complicated by the permeability of the US public sector to private interests. The lecture drew on recent empirical research about the Congressional Revolving Door to illustrate these points;
• A Conversation with Dorit Beinisch and Jeremy Waldron, 87.34 min, uploaded by nyuschooloflaw, Oct 16, 2012;
• Comfort Global Economic Policy Forum, Panel 2, 74.28 min, uploaded by NYU School of Law, Nov 16, 2012: Municipal Finance Markets, Pensions and Budgets;
• Q&A with Legal defense team for Russian band Pussy Riot, 80.23 min, uploaded by NYU School of Law, Oct 16, 2012: Lawyers for the imprisoned members of Pussy Riot, the Russian punk rock band, came to the Law School on September 21 to discuss their clients’ legal predicament, as well as the broader political climate in Russia;

MoneyWeekVideos:

• Tobin tax – The ‘Robin Hood’ tax – MoneyWeek Investment Tutorials, 15.56 min, uploaded by MoneyWeekVideos, Oct 7, 2011;
• How do banks create credit? – MoneyWeek Investment Tutorials, 14.49 min, uploaded by MoneyWeekVideos, Oct 13, 2011: Tim Bennett explains how banks create credit and what that means for your money;
• What is money laundering? – MoneyWeek Investment Tutorial, 10.08 min, uploaded by MoneyWeekVideos, Mar 30, 2012;
• What is a hedge fund? – MoneyWeek Investment Tutorials, 18.22 min, uploaded by MoneyWeekVideos, May 8, 2012;
• What is quantitative easing all about? – MoneyWeek Investment Tutorials, 14.10 min, uploaded by MoneyWeekVideos, Nov. 2, 2010;
• What do investment banks actually do? – MoneyWeek Investment Tutorials, 112.21 min, uploaded by MoneyWeekVideos, Apr 4, 2011: Tim Bennett looks at what investment banks actually do, how they operate and how they manage to earn such big profits.

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Banning the NPD: German Governors Agree on Legal Challenge, on Spiegel Online International, Dec. 6, 2012: Governors from Germany’s 16 states gave their unanimous support Thursday for a legal bid to ban the country’s far-right NPD party. But Chancellor Angela Merkel and members of her cabinet are skeptical that a court challenge will work. The last one, in 2003, failed …;

Interview with UBS Chairman Axel Weber: We Have Learned Our Lesson, on Spiegel Online International, Dec. 6, 2012: In a SPIEGEL interview, UBS board chairman Axel Weber says his bank is better prepared than most others for new, stricter capital requirements. UBS has learned from the mistakes of the financial crisis, he says, and explains why the Swiss financial giant has moved away from investment banking …