In this episode Naomi Fowler looks at how the very wealthy shape the world, why the rest of us really, really can’t afford them. And, how it never ends just with the pet mansions and the cashmere-lined private jets, as the fascinating story of the EU Court of Justice ruling (reversing progress on public registers of beneficial owners of companies) demonstrates…

Featuring:

• Florencia Lorenzo of the Tax Justice Network
• Mark Bou Mansour of the Tax Justice Network
• Brooke Harrington, Professor of economic sociology and wealth manager anthropologist
• Luc Caregari, journalist at https://www.reporter.lu in Luxembourg
• Also featuring: spoiled dogs, private jet business colleagues, a disillusioned youtube jet entrepreneur, a new jet owner and his excited friend, Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton (plus her dogs and a reporter), a millionaire who’s ditching his jet, author of ‘How Bad Are Bananas?’ Professor Mike Berners Lee, Dun & Bradstreet youtube briefing
• Produced and hosted by Naomi Fowler, Tax Justice Network

“The real centre of the offshore system is not the wealthy clients everyone talks about in the newspapers, it’s the grey bureaucratic people called wealth managers, the attorneys, bankers, accountants, tax advisors etc who are the brains of the system. If you want to sanction wealthy people, what you actually need to do is knock their wealth managers out of the system, or disable their wealth manager’s ability to serve those oligarch clients.” ~ Brooke Harrington