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Not content with stealing water from California, Nestlé wants to do the same in Oregon. The egregious deal would allow them a 99% profit on the pristine water. Hell, no! 
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A nauseating new IRS report reveals just how much money the top one-thousandth of the 1 percent is hoarding
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It's a different day, but it's the same old story of how the rich and corporations are playing unsuspecting voters "like a dice game" that's fixed in favor of Wall Street.
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This is Money readers say they are getting fobbed off when they try to use new pension freedoms to cash in retirement pots.
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Tax Justice Network says 2 billion Commonwealth citizens are among victims of 'web of secrecy jurisdictions'
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The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that its own analysis of 60 big U.S. companies found that they parked $166 billion offshore last year. A separate Bloomberg analysis published Friday said the largest U.S.-based companies expanded their untaxed offshore stockpiles by $183 billion,..
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A provision quietly inserted into the combination continuing resolution/omnibus spending bill – or Cromnibus – last year increased the maximum that party committees can accept from $33,400 to over $334,000 each year. (The limits were also increased for Senate and congressional campaign committees to $234,000 apiece.)
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Tom Hayes, 35, had offered to bribe his contacts with the promise of a "humongous deal" in return for manipulating the London interbank offering rate, but one joked he would have a "Fosters top"
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Money involved in the two-decade-old bribery scheme passed through U.S. banks, helping give the country the right to pursue prosecutions against the foreign nationals involved and also to examine the role of the banks, acting U.S. Attorney Kelly Currie in Brooklyn told a news conference Wednesday.
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Bernie Sanders did something that no other politician does. The Democratic presidential candidate went on CNBC and criticized the sick greed of Wall Street.
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In a deal with the American authorities, the Swiss bank said it would also plead guilty to a criminal charge over rigging a benchmark interest rate.
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According to a report by a global coalition of trade unions McDonald's has been accused of tax avoidance.
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An insurance behemoth does done everything it can to avoid covering the cost of a prosthetic leg I desperately need.
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Washington, D.C. — Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) asked the House and Senate Commerce Committees to investigate the increasing problem of short sellers attempting to manipulate the federal government for personal financial gain.
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Vatican condemns early release of document in which pontiff calls on people to change their lifestyles and energy consumption or face grave consequences
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Democrats and the White House are fighting over whether banks should tap taxpayer-backed funds for risky trades.
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Some of the UK's most prominent business people appear in Jersey's offshore history of legal avoidance
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The announcement of a ground-breaking tax free zone being established by the Albanian government around the port city of Durrës marks an exciting new phase for the country, as it beckons more and more foreign investors to look to its shores. Via Enzo Calamo
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On the eve of Tax Day, a prominent consumer advocacy group on Tuesday provided a vivid reminder of how some of the largest Fortune 500 companies avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes on profits parked overseas.
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The executive chairman of Walgreens Boots Alliance said the Deerfield-based drugstore chain was made a "whipping boy" by the Obama administration and elected officials opposed to corporate tax inversions.
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The investigation into the rigging of global benchmark interest rates at last yields a trial, which may also prove a measure of British controls on the finance industry.
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From
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Six of the biggest names in global finance shelled out billions of dollars Wednesday to settle charges of rigging currency markets, but liberal lawmakers complain the government is just doling out slaps on the wrist.
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Illegal and unethical behaviour is still commonplace in the finance world, according to research
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Washington, D.C. — CREW has known for years that corporate America’s preferred hired gun, Rick Berman, will stoop to aggressive and dishonest tactics on behalf of his powerful clients. But Berman’s latest campaign to sell off America’s public lands, backed by one of the leading sources of dark money for conservative causes nationwide, reached new heights of hypocrisy, leading CREW’s voters to crown Berman as April’s Scoundrel of the Month.
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