Another bombshell opinion has been issued by the Court of Justice of the European Union (@eucourtofjustice.bsky.social) which says that public access to shareholder information isn't aligned with GDPR data rules and should be subject to a legitimate interest test www.linkedin.com/posts/stephe...

🧵1/ New research alert! 📊 Our latest paper, Global Offshore Wealth, 2001–2023, analyzes two decades of offshore household wealth — key to understanding tax evasion, illicit financial flows and wealth distribution worldwide. Here’s what we found👇 🔗 www.taxobservatory.eu/publication/...

It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

Further obvious evidence that allowing your cryptocurrency exchange to be used for money laundering is a really really bad idea decrypt.co/350490/coinb...

A decade of reforms promised to curb financial secrecy, but have they delivered? Dive into the debate at our transparency conference. 2 days of engaging academic & policy discussions, featuring a keynote by Pascal Saint-Amans. 🗓️3–4 Feb 📍@pse.bsky.social Sign up: www.eventbrite.com/e/from-secre...

This element of the situation is so maddening because it adds this air of unreality to the transphobes statements - and yet they are taken totally seriously by our press and much of our political class. Very obviously people were muddling making accommodations and no great social crisis was caused!

What if: Immigration is actually really beneficial to a country and helps secure its future prosperity and long term health of its culture and isn’t a really bad thing like all those rich sociopaths who moved to Dubai say it is?

Some highly unfortunate acronym selection by the folks at the IFC

🚨 Save the Date! Don’t miss our joint conference with @skatteforsk.bsky.social: From Secrecy to Transparency: The End of Hidden Wealth? 🗓️ 3-4 Feb 2026 📍 @pse.bsky.social Explore how global reforms, beneficial ownership registries & data sharing impact offshore tax evasion and financial secrecy.

Man Getting High And Eating Taco Bell Thousands Of Miles Away From Family Having Best Thanksgiving Of Life https://theonion.com/man-getting-high-and-eating-taco-bell-thousands-of-mile-1845721340/

📢 Don't miss our joint Paris Tax Workshop on December 5th! 🎤 İrem Güçeri ( @blavatnikschool.bsky.social ) & Sébastien Laffitte (THEMA & EUTO) 🕛 12:00–15:00 CET 📍 @pse.bsky.social & zoom 🌐 Language: English Registration: www.taxobservatory.eu/event/paris-...

There are those in the development sector that try to romanticize rural life, but most people really are happier living around lots of other people voxdev.org/topic/migrat...

Novo Nordisk's trials on whether semaglutide slows the progression of Alzheimer's failed to show a benefit - www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

This is incredible reporting from the ICIJ and a clear sign that both the regulators and the big blockchain analytics firms have clearly dropped the ball

A frustratingly common response to the complaint "It is difficult to make friends nowadays" is "what about through your [insert child's name here] school or pre-school?" "They have both have kids" seems to me a pretty terrible predictor of whether two people will really get along!

@skatteforsk.bsky.social is the place to be for research on tax and illicit flows! And they are hiring a *three* year postdoc. Please consider applying! econjobmarket.org/positions/12...

Insights from Larry Summers "I observed that half the IQ In world was possessed by women without mentioning they are more than 51 percent of population..."

Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell

If the pro natalists want me to have babies they should really talk to the gaggle of 11 year old white boys screaming 6-7 at me on the street, because let me tell you those kids are hurting your case

i think we actually should force everyone who owns an island to make us a movie and if we dont like it the island is forfeit

I'm an Economist subscriber, but this article is really doing quite a lot of work with "can" in the title The read of evidence seems biased (a lot is being made of the Quebec study, which has its own limitations, and in any case is an extreme example) www.economist.com/finance-and-...

AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Seeing a worrying trend in the economics of money laundering literature where publications are coming out where authors have either severely misunderstood or are misrepresenting the policy variation they are exploiting It seems like editors don't know any better and aren't finding referees who do

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Watching Season 1 of the X-Files with my better half last night and realized that I'm the same age as Mitch Pileggi when he made his first appearance as Walter Skinner 💀

"Liechtenstein’s crackdown on Russia-linked trusts has begun to spill into the offshore wealth system, leaving service providers fearing unpaid fees and stranded assets in the British Virgin Islands, Bahamas and the Cayman Islands." www.ft.com/content/8828...

Looks like Jersey Gov has decided to diverge from AMLD6, despite years of saying they were going to follow the EU's approach. The consultation proposes a legit interest test that differs significantly from AMLD6, and follows the more restrictive approach by the Overseas Territories.

New OA article @europe-asia.bsky.social: The Incumbency Advantage and the Enabler Effect: How Londongrad Beat the UK AML Regime Drawing on £2bn of property data, we show that not a single incumbent kleptocrat (0/72!) lost their UK assets. with @jheathershaw.bsky.social T. Mayne & S. Tokubayev

This is pretty remarkable - Companies House's incorperation fee for those using its online service was £18 in 2011 Now it will be £100 Bad news for the UK's Doing Business Index, good news for its fight against illicit finance

*What One Mineral Reveals About the U.S.–China Trade War* China has banned the export of antimony to the U.S. But in a new post, I find that global supply chains - both legal and illegal - are finding ways to adjust. #polisky #econsky #lawsky #china mileskellerman.substack.com/p/what-one-m...

i had an opinion about the new tswift record after all www.patreon.com/posts/140377...

Are you interested in research on corruption/illicit finance/kleptocracy? We are hiring a Research Fellow at @acdatacollective.bsky.social: acdatacollective.org/wp-content/u... Please share in your networks, this could be a great gig.

Farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers continue to claim millions in subsidies. Our investigation traced dozens of EU payments to farms that have breached, are under investigation for, or have already been convicted of labour-related offences. @journalismfund.bsky.social

The European Commission has opened infringement procedures against Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, Croatia, Poland, Slovakia and Sweden after the countries failed to provide comprehensive access to beneficial ownership information ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

New with the @postandcourier.bsky.social, @ajc.com and @istories.bsky.social... After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the US sanctioned Sergey Khotimskiy and the bank he co-founded, Sovcombank. He finalized the transfer of as much as $43 million in real estate to his ex-wife before the sanctions.

The 7th World Bank / @odi.global / IFS Public Finance Conference starts tomorrow, with keynotes from LSE's Tim Besley and Norwegian University of Life Sciences' Annette Alstadsaeter. 🖥️ Find out more and join the livestreams here: www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...

My post mortem of the US's Corporate Transparency Act datadarkly.substack.com/p/america-la...

Nick Kristof went to talk to some of the moms losing their beloved children to Trump’s aid cuts. We are paying storage on already existing food rather than release it to starving kids. “I loved my child so much” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

This one is for the kids www.instagram.com/reel/DOqNUC-...

🚨New working paper🚨 In this updated work with Annette Alstadsaeter, @bluebery-planterose.com , @gabrielzucman.bsky.social and @andokl.bsky.social , we use leaked data to chart the rise of offshore real estate in Dubai www.taxobservatory.eu//www-site/up...

I mean COME ON

Company that sells digital solutions for AML compliance writes a white paper that states that digital solutions for AML compliance are important imtf.com/download/whi...

Notably, the UK does the "higher taxes for immigrants" thing (they have a special tax that notionally pays for their healthcare from NHS, even though they also pay all the regular taxes that British citizens pay which fund the NHS), and the UK still has the same populist-nativist problem as the US

I'm kind of shocked that anyone is still proposing technocratic solutions to the "debate" over immigration. Even if this were a good idea (and it is not), Republican elites and media will never tell their base about it. You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem!

I have given in and started a Substack to write about illicit finance, development and data In my first post, I explain why we should be careful about citing the $312 billion statistic on the size of Chinese money laundering datadarkly.substack.com/p/exactly-ho...

Anyone working on Nigeria know where I can find historical election results data (e.g. state senator, governor elections, all candidates with vote shares) going back as far as the 2000s?