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“...offshore is, almost by definition, the equivalent of the smoke-filled room, where business always gets done outside of, and indeed in opposition to, the democratic process. They operate according to the Golden Rule: whoever has the gold, makes the rules.”

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Book:The Finance Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer

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