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Silverlining ago

GW seems to be signing out today - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVC-_mV6OX8 Day 221 - 222 would be a good number to wrap up on.

privatepizza ago

Watching it now, thanks ! I'll reply : )

Silverlining ago

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/contact/ he uses a Russia email account!

privatepizza ago

Who is he and how is he connected? How do you know he uses a Russian email account ?

Silverlining ago

the paper, entitled Tax Evasion and Inequality, said. “By our estimate, the top 0.01% of the [wealth] distribution owns about 50% of [the wealth].” [This must be wrong]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/01/super-rich-evade-on-average-nearly-third-of-their-due-tax

Silverlining ago

http://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/AJZ2017.pdf

Ah - Gabriel is talking about offshore wealth, not total wealth, the thought of which made me sit up.

As a result, off shore wealth turns out to be extremely concentrated. By our estimate, the top 0.01% of the distribution owns about 50% of it.