Cayman Quotes

So Caymen..." "So, Xander..." "Like the islands." "What?" "Your name. Caymen. Like the Cayman Islands. Is that your mom's favourite place to visit or something?" "No, it's her third favourite place. I have an older brother named Paris and an older sister named Sydney." "Wow." He opens the bag, takes out a muffin, and hands it to me. The top glistens with sprinkled sugar. "Really?" I gently unwrap it. "No.

Cayman cocked his head to the side. “When is there ever a right time to fully give your heart to another? There are always going to be obstacles. You just have to decide which ones are worth it.

The loss of innocence refers to carnal sin and it's not like you have to do the deed to experience the pleasure of sin. Correct?!.. Cayman dipped his chin. 'In other words, all she needed to do was to have an orgasm..And most likely not by herself.' ..Someone kill me now! ..'Well.' Roth drew the word out.'This is awkward.' I slowly lowered my hands.'You think?

Whoa.” Cayman threw up his hands. “Simmer down, crouching demon, hidden Warden. He’s fine.

Cayman shrugged."It's a sign of the times, man. It'll probably be on some Alpha's Facebook wall within the hour." Alphas had Facebook accounts?

So weird.” “What?” He tipped forward. “I still want to touch you.” My eyes widened. “You’re an odd, creepy demon prince.” Roth grinned. “Well, you still creep me out,” Cayman announced as Roth leaned farther toward me, one hand sliding across the table. “No touching,” Zayne warned. The demon prince pouted as he pulled his hand back. “That’s no fun.

Stacey was holding the throw pillow to her mouth now, and all that was visible were her huge, dark brown eyes. When she spoke, her voice was muffled."Who is that?" I started to explain, but Cayman bowed in her direction extending his arm with a flourish."Only the most handsome and smartest and downright most charming demon there is."But I know that's a mouthful, so you can call me Cayman." "Um." Her gaze darted around the room."Okay.

You can’t have it all. You can’t get huge tax breaks while children in this country go hungry. You can’t continue sending our jobs to China while millions are looking for work. You can’t hide your profits in the Cayman Islands and other tax havens while there are massive unmet needs on every corner of this nation. Your greed has got to end. You cannot take advantage of all the benefits of America if you refuse to accept your responsibilities.

A.Coward," he repeated, and I briefly considered picking up the vase in the center of the island and throwing it at him."Not making a choice is the coward's way out. You love both of them. I get that. But you don't feel the same kind of love for both of them, and the sooner you accept that the better.

a silent concave of puppet buffoons neither eagles nor jaguars buzzard lawyers locuses wings of ink sawing mindibles ventriloquist coyotes peddlers of shadows beneficent satraps the cacomistle thief of hens the monument to the Rattle and its snake the altar to the mauser and the machete the mausoleum of the epauletted cayman rhetoric sculpted in phrases of cement

Every night, around midnight GMT, the Sun sets on the Cayman Islands, and doesn’t rise over the British Indian Ocean Territory until after 1:00 a.m. For that hour, the little Pitcairn Islands in the South Pacific are the only British territory in the Sun. The Pitcairn Islands have a population of a few dozen people, the descendants of the mutineers from the HMS Bounty. The islands became notorious in 2004 when a third of the adult male population, including the mayor, were convicted of child sexual abuse. As awful as the islands may be, they remain part of the British Empire, and unless they’re kicked out, the two-century-long British daylight will continue.

Crocodiles, you will say, are stationary. Mr. Waterton tells me that the crocodile does not change,—that a cayman, in fact, or an alligator, is just as good for riding upon as he was in the time of the Pharaohs. That may be; but the reason is that the crocodile does not live fast—he is a slow coach. I believe it is generally understood among naturalists that the crocodile is a blockhead. It is my own impression that the Pharaohs were also blockheads.

We live in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, but that reality means little because almost all of that wealth is controlled by a tiny handful of individuals. There is something profoundly wrong when the top one-tenth of 1 percent owns almost as much as the bottom 90 percent, and when 99 percent of all new income goes to the top 1 percent. There is something profoundly wrong when one family owns more wealth than the bottom 130 million Americans. This type of immoral, unsustainable economy is not what America is supposed to be about. This has got to change, and together we will change it. The change begins when we say to the billionaire class: “You can’t have it all. You can’t get huge tax breaks while children in this country go hungry. You can’t continue sending our jobs to China while millions are looking for work. You can’t hide your profits in the Cayman Islands and other tax havens, while there are massive unmet needs in every corner of this nation. Your greed has got to end. You cannot take advantage of all the benefits of America if you refuse to accept your responsibilities as Americans.

Wisdom is really the key to wealth. With great wisdom, comes great wealth and success. Rather than pursuing wealth, pursue wisdom. The aggressive pursuit of wealth can lead to disappointment. Wisdom is defined as the quality of having experience, and being able to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting. Wisdom is basically the practical application of knowledge. Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. Become completely focused on one subject and study the subject for a long period of time. Don't skip around from one subject to the next. The problem is generally not money. Jesus taught that the problem was attachment to possessions and dependence on money rather than dependence on God. Those who love people, acquire wealth so they can give generously. After all, money feeds, shelters, and clothes people. They key is to work extremely hard for a short period of time (1-5 years), create abundant wealth, and then make money work hard for you through wise investments that yield a passive income for life. Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand. Failure is success if we learn from it. Continuing failure eventually leads to success. Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. Whenever you pursue a goal, it should be with complete focus. This means no interruptions. Only when one loves his career and is skilled at it can he truly succeed. Never rush into an investment without prior research and deliberation. With preferred shares, investors are guaranteed a dividend forever, while common stocks have variable dividends. Some regions with very low or no income taxes include the following: Nevada, Texas, Wyoming, Delaware, South Dakota, Cyprus, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Panama, San Marino, Seychelles, Isle of Man, Channel Islands, Curaçao, Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Monaco, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Bermuda, Kuwait, Oman, Andorra, Cayman Islands, Belize, Vanuatu, and Campione d'Italia. There is only one God who is infinite and supreme above all things. Do not replace that infinite one with finite idols. As frustrated as you may feel due to your life circumstances, do not vent it by cursing God or unnecessarily uttering his name. Greed leads to poverty. Greed inclines people to act impulsively in hopes of gaining more. The benefit of giving to the poor is so great that a beggar is actually doing the giver a favor by allowing the person to give. The more I give away, the more that comes back. Earn as much as you can. Save as much as you can. Invest as much as you can. Give as much as you can.

If a unicorn trotted out of the woods and stabbed a leprechaun through its tiny heart with its shimmering golden horn, she probably wouldn’t even blink.

Do the details matter right now? The Tajiks might have sent a hit squad to Magnus Skippton’s supposed home in the Cayman Islands.

extravagant and chose not to attend. When Roger took senior executives on the PepsiCo jet to Montana or the Cayman Islands for long team-building weekends, Steve usually chose to stay home with his wife, Gail, and their four kids. I, of course, was never even invited on Roger’s trips because they were always men only. For me, that was

She was going to have none of his eighteenth century protests.

the Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne published the results of an extensive study of international money laundering.9 The authors compared the banking systems of two hundred countries. The Vatican ranked in the top ten money laundering havens, behind Luxembourg, Switzerland, the Cayman Islands, and Liechtenstein, but ahead of Singapore.

Nowhere was the airport’s charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike fonts, the itineraries of aircraft about to take to the skies. These screens implied a feeling of infinite and immediate possibility: they suggested the ease with which we might impulsively approach a ticket desk and, within a few hours, embark for a country where the call to prayer rang out over shuttered whitewashed houses, where we understood nothing of the language and where no one knew our identities. The lack of detail about the destinations served only to stir unfocused images of nostalgia and longing: Tel Aviv, Tripoli, St Petersburg, Miami, Muscat via Abu Dhabi, Algiers, Grand Cayman via Nassau … all of these promises of alternative lives, to which we might appeal at moments of claustrophobia and stagnation.

What’s your point?” He spun around in his chair and took a brown file folder from a wire rack on the credenza behind him next to a couple of generic office plants. He opened it, took out a sheet of paper, and looked at it for a moment. Then he handed it to me. It was a fax from a bank in the Caymans called Transatlantic Bank & Trust (Cayman) Limited, located on Mary Street in George Town, Grand Cayman. A copy of a copy of a copy, festooned with smudges and photocopier artifacts. It was a letter from Roger, on Gifford Industries letterhead, to the bank’s manager. A letter of instruction.

going to

Miliardi e Mondiali La macchina da soldi che non conosce soste L’ultimo caso per la federazione la scelta di Russia e Qatar Giulia Zonca | 824 parole Trovare l’uomo chiave dell’operazione Fifapulita è praticamente impossibile. Troppi soldi, troppe mazzette vere o presunte e troppi giri d’affari concentrici che prima di chiamare denaro ne producono in abbondanza. La Fifa si basa su un sistema fatto di soldi, tanti dichiarati, incalcolabili quelli in nero, non tutti e non sempre sono spesi male, anzi, ma il circolo infinito di dollari che non conosce crisi crea un vortice in stile deposito di Zio Paperone dove avidità chiama altra avidità. E non c’è pace. Cambiare tutto La Fifa si ritrova nelle stesse condizioni in cui stava il Comitato olimpico prima degli scandali del 2002 e ora se vuole reggere dovrà fare la stessa mossa. La rivoluzione. Nuovi nomi e altre regole ma al momento il sistema Fifa si basa proprio sull’immutabilità, sul circolo chiuso, su un potere che resta sempre nelle stesse mani, garantisce a tutti grandi introiti e visto dall’interno funziona benissimo. Ogni uomo preso con le mani nella marmellata sa che verrà abbandonato, però sa anche che fino a lì vivrà alla grande. La perdita di credibilità non è mai sembrata un problema al governo di pallone. Ogni voce considerata frottola, ogni frode un male inevitabile ed arginabile. Il pantano perpetuo. L’inchiesta dell’Fbi parte dal 1991 e traccia una scia di bigliettoni che rimbalzano dai conti alle Cayman, girano sulle banche di Hong Kong e tornano in Svizzera. Fondi alleggeriti e pronti ad altro uso. Il mondo del pallone ha dichiarato 4,826 miliardi di dollari di incasso dall’ultimo quadriennio mondiale. Già: la parola magica che attira sponsor, apre porte, unge canali ed evidentemente fa dimenticare ogni decenza. Non è solo la manifestazione più vista al mondo a solleticare scambi illeciti, dentro il calderone della frode denunciato dall’accusa americana ci sono Confederations Cup, tornei minori, pacchetti di diritti tv e persino la Coppa America del 2016 che si gioca proprio negli Stati Uniti. Al Bureau non hanno indagato a caso. La doppia assegnazione Lo scandalo più evidente e cristallino resta l’assegnazione dei Mondiali 2018-2022, doppio pacco per essere sicuri di mescolare abbastanza le carte e sovrapporre gli illeciti. La confusione e la molteplicità degli interessi in ballo è sempre lo sfondo in cui si muove la Fifa. L’edizione 2018 è andata alla Russia e quella del 2022 al Qatar, voto segreto deciso da 22 persone: dovevano essere 24 ma due erano già tagliati fuori da un’inchiesta di corruzione. Tanto per capire. E qui siamo agli atti non alle speculazioni. Sempre fatti concreti escono dal rapporto Garcia, una memoria investigativa seguita alle proteste per quei Mondiali assegnati in modo così strano. I conti non tornavano a nessuno il che significa che hanno provato a farli tutti e che il famoso voto di scambio, di cui ci si preoccupava all’inizio del dicembre 2010, era davvero in atto. Doveva esserci un asse Inghilterra-Australia, uno Spagna-Portogallo-Qatar: tu muovi consensi per il 2018, io per il 2022 e siamo tutti contenti. Era già molto al limite però almeno non ancora fraudolento. Peccato che il giochino sia scoppiato perché sono intervenuti fattori esterni. Le bustarelle. L’indagine censurata L’indifferente Blatter ha tentato di mostrarsi magnanimo. Ha varato una commissione etica, ci ha messo dentro Michael Garcia, ex procuratore federale americano, e qui parte il labirinto. Garcia ha redatto un rapporto, mai reso noto ufficialmente, la Fifa ne ha prodotto una sintesi e ha concluso che non c’era stata manipolazione nel voto. Garcia ha rigettato la tesi e ha dato le dimissioni. Vi gira la testa? Chiaro, i nonsense si rincorrono e la trasparenza è impossibile perché la Fifa è uno statuto autonomo, risponde solo a se stessa. Non ha pubblicato gli esiti dell’indagine e la normale conseg

Outside of North America, there are 82 stock exchanges, some quite small, such as the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange. Very few have anything close to the influence on the world’s economies enjoyed by American exchanges. It has been accurately said that if America’s economy sneezes, the world catches a cold.

scam, he now had $3.8 million in the Cayman

this isn’t a Scooby Doo episode,

hatch our survival plan in the coolest place we could find. We made our way into the cluttered room at the windowed front of the deckhouse—what our boat builders back in Hong Kong called the “lavish grand salon” in their sales brochures. With us, it was more like the messy rumpus room. True, the room had, as advertised, “a curved couch, sleek teak paneling, and hardwood cabinetry with a built-in sink.” But the sink had dirty dishes and empty soda bottles in it, the paneled walls were cluttered with a collection of my parents’ favorite treasures (including a conquistador helmet, a rare African tribal mask, a grog jug shaped like a frog, a rusty cannonball from a Confederate gunboat, a bronze clock covered with cherubs that probably belonged to King Louis XIV, and, in a glass shadow box, a rusty steak knife from the Titanic). There were assorted trinkets, necklaces, and coconut heads suspended from the ceiling. Add a heap of scuba and snorkel gear and assorted socks, shoes, and T-shirts on the floor (the floor is our laundry basket), and our grand salon looked more like a live-in recycling bin. “Have we even seen a map for this treasure hunt?” asked Beck. “Nope. Dad just said we needed to be in the Caymans.” “Then we need to find his map.

Cool.” Yep. Twenty seconds, and we were done. “Sorry,” I said. “Ditto,” said Beck. “Is anybody going to apologize to me?” Storm trudged into the hallway from the cabin she shares with Beck. “I was trying to sleep.” “I thought you were making a list of our food supplies,” said Beck. “It took about two seconds because we have about nada. I decided to take a nap instead. And now thanks to you two, I’m awake. What’re you two doing?” “We need to get into The Room,” I said. “Why?” “To find Dad’s treasure map for the Caymans dive.” Storm made a fish-lips face and thought about that for a couple of seconds. “Good idea.” Then, yawning and scratching her butt, she turned around and shuffled back into her cabin. “Okay,” I said to Beck, “if you were

I bet you won’t be surprised to hear that no female angels have ever gotten themselves kicked out of Heaven,” Cayman said. “Not because they never questioned anything. It’s just that they actually questioned things in a logical, thoughtful manner instead of acting like general fools.

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Như được hẹn trước, âm nhạc chợt dừng lại, những người đi dạo trên bãi biển chợt đóng băng và ngước nhìn, tiếng ồn tại Rumheads chợt lắng đọng khi mọi cặp mắt xoay chuyển để chiêm ngưỡng cảnh mặt trời đang tiếp nước. Những đám mây xám trắng rơi rớt của cơn bão hạ thấp dần ở đường chân trời rồi chìm xuống cùng vầng dương. Chúng từ từ làm xoay chuyển những sắc cam, vàng và đỏ, thoạt tiên chuyển thành màu xanh xám, rồi bất chợt là những tông tươi sáng. Trong một khoảnh khắc ngắn, bầu trời là một tấm vải bạt mà mặt trời vấy lên đó những sắc màu tuyệt mỹ bằng những nét mạnh bạo. Rồi quả cầu màu cam sáng chạm mặt nước và, chỉ trong tích tắc, nó biến mất. Những đám mây trở lại với màu đen và tản mát dần. Đó là khung cảnh mặt trời lặn ở Cayman.

Noi, illusi di essere dèi saremo solo cloni senza più l'ombelico. Michel Houellebecq delinea il nostro futuro: ci resta soltanto una "Consolazione tecnica". Io non mi piaccio. Provo per me solo un briciolo di simpatia, e ancor meno stima; di più, la mia persona non m'interessa molto. Conosco da tempo le mie principali caratteristiche, e ho finito per provarne disgusto. Da adolescente, ancora giovane uomo, parlavo di me, pensavo a me, ero come ricolmo della mia stessa persona; ora non è più così. Mi sono estraniato dai miei pensieri, e la sola prospettiva di dover raccontare un episodio personale mi fa sprofondare in una noia vicina alla catalessi. Qualora vi sia assolutamente obbligato, mento. Eppure, paradossalmente, non mi sono mai pentito di essermi riprodotto. Si può anche dire che amo mio figlio, e che lo amo ancora di più ogni volta che riconosco in lui una traccia dei miei medesimi difetti. Li vedo manifestarsi nel corso del tempo con un implacabile determinismo, e ne sono felice. Godo senza il minimo pudore nel vedere ripetersi, e di conseguenza perpetuarsi, caratteristiche personali che non hanno assolutamente nulla di apprezzabile, caratteristiche che risultano abbastanza spregevoli; e che, in realtà, non hanno altro merito se non quello di essere le mie. Peraltro, non sono esattamente le mie; di alcune mi rendo conto che sono ricalcate tali e quali sulla personalità di mio padre, quello stronzo fatto e finito; cosa che, stranamente, non toglie nulla alla mia gioia. La quale è qualcosa di più dell'egoismo; qualcosa di più profondo e indiscutibile. Come un volume è qualcosa di più della sua proiezione su una superficie piana; o come un corpo vivente è qualcosa di più della sua ombra. Ciò che al contrario mi rattrista, in mio figlio, è il fatto di vederlo mettere in risalto (influsso della madre? cambiamento dei tempi? puro individualismo?) i tratti di una personalità autonoma, nella quale io non mi riconosco affatto, che mi rimane estranea. Lungi dal meravigliarmene, mi rendo conto che lascerò soltanto un'immagine incompleta e indebolita di me stesso; nel giro di pochi secondi, avverto più nettamente l'odore della morte. E posso confermarlo: la morte puzza. La filosofia occidentale favorisce poco la manifestazione di sentimenti del genere; sono sentimenti che non lasciano il minimo spazio al progresso, alla libertà, all'individuazione, al divenire; che s'indirizzano unicamente all'eterna, imbecille ripetizione dell'uguale. Per giunta, non hanno nulla di originale; sono condivisi dalla quasi totalità dell'umanità, nonché dalla maggior parte del regno animale; non sono nient'altro che la memoria sempre attiva di un istinto biologico dominante. La filosofia occidentale è un lento, paziente e crudele dispositivo di ammaestramento volto a convincerci di alcune idee del tutto false. La prima è che dobbiamo rispettare gli altri perché sono differenti da noi; la seconda è che abbiamo qualcosa da guadagnare dalla morte. Oggi, per effetto della tecnologia occidentale, questa vernice di convenienze si sta rapidamente scrostando. Naturalmente, io mi farò clonare appena possibile; naturalmente, tutti si faranno clonare appena possibile. Andrò alle Bahamas, in Nuova Zelanda o alle Isole Cayman; pagherò il prezzo necessario (né gli imperativi etici né gli imperativi finanziari hanno mai pesato molto, in confronto a quelli della riproduzione). Avrò probabilmente due o tre cloni, come si hanno due o tre figli; tra le cui nascite rispetterò un adeguato intervallo (né troppo vicini né troppo lontani); uomo ormai maturo, mi comporterò da padre responsabile. Assicurerò ai miei cloni una buona educazione; e alla fine morirò. Morirò senza piacere, poiché non desidero morire. Tuttavia, fino a prova contraria, vi sono obbligato. Tramite i miei cloni, avrò raggiunto una certa forma di sopravvivenza per nulla sufficiente, ma comunque superiore a quella che mi avrebbero garantito dei figli. È il massimo che la tecnologia occidentale ...

One vast and meaningless blood sport that encouraged the chaos it supposedly fought?

The shark continued swimming toward them, gliding through the water like a biological torpedo. Watson had read a Great White could hit twenty to thirty knots, which was far faster than their top speed. Right now, they were like two elderly joggers trying to outrun an Olympic sprinter. “We’re fine,” Watson muttered, more for his benefit than his partner’s. “It’s just a big fish, and this thing is reinforced. It’ll just bounce off a couple of times. We’re not tasty.” “Yeah.” Cayman snorted. “It’s probably thinking, ‘Just have to crack this egg for the

What we were supposed to do if we had qualms—and surely some did—was douse them. On the spot. Take a deep breath, go wash your face, lease a new Z-car, buy a condo in Snowmass, learn to fly your own Beech Bonanza, maybe take instruction in violin making. But ship as much fresh money as possible to the Caymans, then spend the rest of the time putting your feet up on your desk and chortling about how work’s for the other ranks.

As a concept, free-trade zones are as old as commerce itself, and were all the more relevant in ancient times when the transportation of goods required multiple holdovers and rest stops. Pre-Roman Empire city-states, including Tyre, Carthage and Utica, encouraged trade by declaring themselves "free cities," where goods in transit could be stored without tax, and merchants would be protected from harm. These tax-free areas developed further economic significance during colonial times, when entire cities- including Hong Kong, Singapore and Gibraltar - were designated as "free ports" from which the loot of colonialism could be safely shipped back to England, Europe or America with low import tariffs. Today, the globe is dotted with variations on these tax-free pockets, from duty-free shops in airports and free banking zones of the Cayman Islands to bonded warehouses and ports where goods in transit are held, sorted and packaged.

But if mixed-race people in the United States in the late nineteenth century found themselves legally classed as “black,” mixed-race people in the West Indies more often found themselves classed with “whites.” In the 1855 census of Grand Cayman Island, for example, “blacks” constituted one category; “white and coloured” another. “It was found impracticable to distinguish between the white and coloured population,” explained the missionary census takers. “The greater proportion of these…are persons of colour, but, of course, of various shades of complexion.”15

Cayman smiled. "Because I'm a caring sort of demon.

Five minutes later, I have in my hand a one-way ticket that will take me back to the island of Grand Cayman to live. Because there's no reason not to.

He’d left her stranded in front of three hundred wedding guests, wearing a white dress and glass slippers like some deranged Cinderella, while he caught a plane to the Cayman Islands with a knock-kneed stripper named Chrysanthemum Greene and several million dollars embezzled from the Stardust Savings and Loan.

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Curbing the financial sector. Since so much of the increase in inequality is associated with the excesses of the financial sector, it is a natural place to begin a reform program. Dodd-Frank is a start, but only a start. Here are six further reforms that are urgent: (a) Curb excessive risk taking and the too-big-to-fail and too-interconnected-to-fail financial institutions; they’re a lethal combination that has led to the repeated bailouts that have marked the last thirty years. Restrictions on leverage and liquidity are key, for the banks somehow believe that they can create resources out of thin air by the magic of leverage. It can’t be done. What they create is risk and volatility.2 (b) Make banks more transparent, especially in their treatment of over-the-counter derivatives, which should be much more tightly restricted and should not be underwritten by government-insured financial institutions. Taxpayers should not be backing up these risky products, no matter whether we think of them as insurance, gambling instruments, or, as Warren Buffett put it, financial weapons of mass destruction.3 (c) Make the banks and credit card companies more competitive and ensure that they act competitively. We have the technology to create an efficient electronics payment mechanism for the twenty-first century, but we have a banking system that is determined to maintain a credit and debit card system that not only exploits consumers but imposes large fees on merchants for every transaction. (d) Make it more difficult for banks to engage in predatory lending and abusive credit card practices, including by putting stricter limits on usury (excessively high interest rates). (e) Curb the bonuses that encourage excessive risk taking and shortsighted behavior. (f) Close down the offshore banking centers (and their onshore counterparts) that have been so successful both at circumventing regulations and at promoting tax evasion and avoidance. There is no good reason that so much finance goes on in the Cayman Islands; there is nothing about it or its climate that makes it so conducive to banking. It exists for one reason only: circumvention. Many

Chasing tax cheats using normal procedures was not an option. It would take decades just to identify anything like the majority of them and centuries to prosecute them successfully; the more we caught, the more clogged up the judicial system would become. We needed a different approach. Once Danis was on board a couple of days later, together we thought of one: we would extract historical and real-time data from the banks on all transfers taking place within Greece as well as in and out of the country and commission software to compare the money flows associated with each tax file number with the tax returns of that same file number. The algorithm would be designed to flag up any instance where declared income seemed to be substantially lower than actual income. Having identified the most likely offenders in this way, we would make them an offer they could not refuse. The plan was to convene a press conference at which I would make it clear that anyone caught by the new system would be subject to 45 per cent tax, large penalties on 100 per cent of their undeclared income and criminal prosecution. But as our government sought to establish a new relationship of trust between state and citizenry, there would be an opportunity to make amends anonymously and at minimum cost. I would announce that for the next fortnight a new portal would be open on the ministry’s website on which anyone could register any previously undeclared income for the period 2000–14. Only 15 per cent of this sum would be required in tax arrears, payable via web banking or debit card. In return for payment, the taxpayer would receive an electronic receipt guaranteeing immunity from prosecution for previous non-disclosure.17 Alongside this I resolved to propose a simple deal to the finance minister of Switzerland, where so many of Greece’s tax cheats kept their untaxed money.18 In a rare example of the raw power of the European Union being used as a force for good, Switzerland had recently been forced to disclose all banking information pertaining to EU citizens by 2017. Naturally, the Swiss feared that large EU-domiciled depositors who did not want their bank balances to be reported to their country’s tax authorities might shift their money before the revelation deadline to some other jurisdiction, such as the Cayman Islands, Singapore or Panama. My proposals were thus very much in the Swiss finance minister’s interests: a 15 per cent tax rate was a relatively small price to pay for legalizing a stash and allowing it to remain in safe, conveniently located Switzerland. I would pass a law through Greece’s parliament that would allow for the taxation of money in Swiss bank accounts at this exceptionally low rate, and in return the Swiss finance minister would require all his country’s banks to send their Greek customers a friendly letter informing them that, unless they produced the electronic receipt and immunity certificate provided by my ministry’s web page, their bank account would be closed within weeks. To my great surprise and delight, my Swiss counterpart agreed to the proposal.19

The Internet as a Source of Drugs of Abuse,” the web page for such a site may be physically located in Uzbekistan, the business address in Mexico City, money generated from purchases deposited in a bank in the Cayman Islands, the drugs themselves shipped from India, while the owner of the site is living in Florida.

It was only in the bosoms of Mrs. Nobes, Mrs. Cayman, and Mrs. Mandragore that hatred still reigned undiminished. Being ladies and old-fashioned, they had drunk almost no wine.

Cayman dollars are worth, but judging by the prices posted at the Gas-N-Go next door it’s less than an American dollar.

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the Grand Cayman connection provided three big advantages to a firm like Lehman Brothers, which was trying desperately to compete with the biggest banks on Wall Street. The first was entering false profits from the “sale” onto the balance sheet. The second was receiving all the coupon payments from the derivatives they still held in the trusts. The third was that the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) required them only to put aside 3 percent of capital, a tiny amount, to cover any losses in an offshore trust.

Roth stared at him. “I’m le tired,” Cayman said, mimicking a French accent I’d heard on a YouTube video once.