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Economy

nxylas

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14. Lots of tax havens near the top of that table

Reply to Festivito (Reply #11)

Fri Jun 3, 2016, 04:50 AM

Jun 2016

I'm not an economist, but I can't help wondering if that distorts the figure by including money that the 1% have offshored.

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