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With the #IRSFiles, @propublica ripped away the veil of performative complexity disguising the scams that the ultra-rich use to amass billions and billions (and billions and billions) of dollars, paying next to no tax, or even no tax at all.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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Each scam is its own little shell game, a set of semantic and accounting tricks used to gussy up otherwise banal rip-offs. The finance sector has a cute name for this kind of complexity: #MEGO, which stands for "#MyEyesGlazeOver."
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@dlauer @dlauer there us history here. You would really need to go back over a year and a half to fully grasp the complexity of this. @Finra allowed a series A perferrd share to trade that was never supposed to be traded outlined in here in the proxy sec.gov/Archives/edgar…
@dlauer @FINRA 2) A market maker (gtsx.com) or 2 (canaccordgenuity.com/capital-market…) started to create a platform to make it tradeable before the merger happened between $TRCH and $MMAT as shown on this OCC memo... Merger was not to complete till the 28th but got done a day early, context
