Off the Books

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - The Greatest Trick They Ever Pulled
2. Chapter Two - The Loophole Machine
3. Chapter Three - The Map of Money That Isn’t There
4. Chapter Four - How to Disappear Billions
5. Chapter Five - The Corporate Hydra
6. Chapter Six - The Panama Papers and What They Proved
7. Chapter Seven - The Big Four
8. Chapter Eight - Delaware Is a Tax Haven
9. Chapter Nine - The Revolving Door
10. Chapter Ten - Transfer Pricing: The World’s Legal Laundromat
11. Chapter Eleven - Treaties, Trade Deals, and the Myth of Fair Tax
12. Chapter Twelve - The Global South Bleeds Out
13. Chapter Thirteen - You Pay More Because They Pay Less
14. Chapter Fourteen - The Wealth Defense Industry
15. Chapter Fifteen - When Billionaires Are the Law
16. Chapter Sixteen - The Illusion of Reform
17. Chapter Seventeen - No One Ever Earned a Billion Dollars

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE The Greatest Trick They Ever Pulled IT’S THE PERFECT crime. And it’s legal. This isn’t some offshore thriller or seedy backroom cash drop. There are no trench coats, no secret briefcases, and no spies whispering through hotel phones. There’s just paper. Law. Policy. Accounting. And loopholes you could drive a superyacht through. The richest people and most powerful corporations on Earth don’t hide their money in duffel bags or Swiss vaults. They hide it in rules. Rules they helped write. Rules designed to look boring. Rules designed to pass. They move money through countries where they don’t do business. They register shell companies with no employees. They hit themselves with...