Here's Looking at You
Intrusive new measures for investigating tax evasion may be effective, but they offer few protections for the innocent, says Caroline…
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Surf ‘n’ Turf
Don’t let the big-city real-estate meltdown put you off: investing in beachfront property or farmland is still a good bet,…
ByAllow Me to Introduce Myself
The alias industry — building up fake identities, complete with official documentation — is flourishing. It’s not even that hard…
ByThe Fugitive
Andrei Navrozov meets Michael Cherney, yet another billionaire Russian in self-imposed exile from an increasingly corrupt and creepy Kremlin. The…
ByBuy Me to the Moon
Space on the ground in Manhattan is in desperately short supply, but luckily for developers there’s plenty of prime air…
ByPayback Time
Philanthropy used to be a matter of throwing cash at a cause and forgetting about it. No longer. Josh Spero…
ByTake the Money and Run
While Liechtenstein still offers discretion and privacy from probing tax authorities, Singapore is proving itself an attractive rival. O’ar Pali…
ByHow to Win Funds and Earn Interest Off People
Desperate times call for desperate measures, up to and including borrowing money from your friends. William Cash on the dos,…
ByHow to Spend It
Forget tax havens and steer clear of commodities. If you’ve still got money to burn, put it in property and…
ByAnatomy of a Breakdown
Stephen Hill on the causes and chronology of the credit crunch — in which the blind avarice on the part…
BySpear's Crunches Credit
From our prescient leaders to our warnings to the central bankers of a year ago, Spear’s has been consistently ahead…
ByIn Bonus and Health
Gold-diggers are planning their exit strategies now their City husbands’ bonuses are evaporating, according to these worried cuckolds of the…
ByCrib Chic
Raheem Brennerman has a very clear idea about how the owners of the properties he builds and furnishes get to…
ByLet's Do Crunch
Until now the credit crunch has been confined to the City and Wall Street banks who were selling each other…
ByAnother Country
It is a little over ten years since the Russian state defaulted on its sovereign debt, an event that practically…
ByHaven on Earth II: Revenge of the Havens
So many countries are now taking notice of how they can best attract offshore money that a second instalment, covering…
ByGordon Fool
Gordon Brown has thrown his fiscal rules out of the window and mucked up the economy. How could he get…
BySale Now On
Big American banks are getting rid of unwanted securities for knock-down prices, and the atmosphere is less end-of-the-season, more end-of-the-pier.…
ByRock Solid
Coloured diamonds may not be an obvious safe choice for the astute investor, but their track record speaks for itself…
ByIt’s All Right For Some
The past three months have been extraordinarily challenging for equity and bond investors — more so, I must say, than…
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