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Pandora papers: A rich man's game, and its most willing participants

As an international consortium of journalists unearths the 'Pandora' list of stashes in tax havens, accountability becomes the call of the day. But what we get instead is hypocrisy, rues T N Ninan

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“The main thing about money, Bud,” Hal Holbrook tells Charlie Sheen in the movie Wall Street, “is that it makes you do things that you don’t want to do.” The film was a morality play on greed and high finance; instead, it apparently became an unintended recruiting ad for the real-world Wall Street! So much for morality and finance. But as an international consortium of journalists unearths the “Pandora” list of secret stashes in tax havens, accountability becomes the call of the day. What we get instead is hypocrisy.
 
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