Category Archives: Multinationals Activity

Globalisation has given Multinationals the ability to take advantage of National Laws to gain unfair advantage in a surprising number of ways.

Little by little changes Are coming.

Posted on March 2, 2019 by tryingtobefair

If you’re stuck for time just jump to the short YouTube at the bottom for a good summary. Back in 2005/06 few people were paying any attention to the role of tax havens in the looting of poor countries by … Continue reading →

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PS. An opinion on Davos. {A.Chakrobortty, Guardian}

Posted on January 23, 2019 by tryingtobefair

No natural force created this intense unfairness, the growing global inequality in wealth and incomes, the recent Oxfam report graphically highlights it. The gulf between the super-rich and the rest of us did not gape wide open overnight. Rather, it … Continue reading →

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Davos, World Economic Forum. Jan 2019

Posted on January 22, 2019 by tryingtobefair

This very week the good and the great {100 state leaders, and at least 1,000 business leaders and “special invitees”, {eg Prince William?  David Blaine illusionist and thrill seeking performer? and the odd film star} are gathering in Davos, at … Continue reading →

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The shennigans of Yahoo !

Posted on September 11, 2017 by tryingtobefair

Yahoo was taken over in June 2017 by another huge USA corp. Verizon for $4.5 Billion. Thats a whole other story. Now I just want to tell you a little of Yahoo’s structure. Yahoo Inc. has 58 registered subsidiaries, they … Continue reading →

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Shenanigans at two different Banks

Posted on September 20, 2016 by tryingtobefair

Jose Manuel Barroso, former Portuguese PM, but most of us would have known him as the top dog / EU Commission President from 2004 to 2014. In this period he oversaw and orchestrated the greatest bailout of the banking industry … Continue reading →

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The high cost of cheap products for the 1st world

Posted on September 1, 2016 by tryingtobefair

http://inthesetimes.com/features/special-economic-zones-corporate-utopia-capitalism.html

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Apple’s unpaid Irish taxes are chicken feed.

Posted on August 30, 2016 by tryingtobefair

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-03-12/cash-abroad-rises-206-billion-as-apple-to-ibm-avoid-tax

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Taxpayers on the hook again, as developers walk away.

Posted on August 5, 2016 by tryingtobefair

  Maurice Bracken, who worked for Clerys for more than 30 years before the staff were turfed out when the building was sold last June, tells an interesting story about the weeks immediately prior to its closure. In hindsight, his … Continue reading →

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Be careful not to ful ourselves!

Posted on July 13, 2016 by tryingtobefair

Multinationals behind 26.3% GDP rise Growth figures affected by number of one-off factors in tech and aircraft leasing EOIN BURKE KENNEDY A handful of multinational companies in the tech, pharma and aircraft leasing sectors were responsible for an extraordinary jump … Continue reading →

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BHS Story rumbles on.

Posted on April 26, 2016 by tryingtobefair

Todays press 26.04.2016 is full of stories of the shenanigans of the previous owners of British Home Stores.   We commented yesterday on some of the activities of the “party animals” Philip and Tina Green and their lavish lifestyle supported by … Continue reading →

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