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Too big to jail: why the crackdowns on dodgy finance have been so ineffective | Prem Sikka
Keywords: Too Big To Jail, Uk Lobbying, Pandora Papers,
More revelations such as Pandora papers may not do much because the inertia is institiutionalized and the political system is available for hire, says Prof. Prem Sikka of the University of Sheffield, UK. He says armies of accountants, lawyers and financial experts support this system, the regulatory system in the UK is ineffective, and too many MP's are on the payroll of corporations, says Prof. Sikka in The Guardian. It is the sheer size of the problem that is staggering and could be an indication of how it reduces upward mobility in society, leads to financial crises, and defunds infrastructure, defunds healthcare and housing in US, Europe, Britain and India. The size of illegal money and tax evasion money in the world today is according to this article in The Guardian simply astonishing- $3.6 trillion.
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Years of revelations have not changed the way the system operates. Inertia is instituionalized and the political system is available for hire, says a professor at the University of Sheffield.
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