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Chapter 1 of Offshore: Stealth, Wealth, and the New Colonialism by Brooke Harrington opens with the Panama Papers. In 2016, a massive leak exposed the offshore financial lives of Jackie Chan, Emma Watson, the king of Saudi Arabia, a former CEO of Adidas, and thousands more. It was a global sensation. But Harrington’s point is that the Panama Papers were just a tiny window into something much bigger. And much worse.

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Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings

Rousseau's Plan for Corsica Part 2: Economics and Self-Sufficiency

Here is the core of Rousseau’s economic vision for Corsica, in one sentence: “Everyone must live and no one must grow rich.” That is the whole philosophy. If you understand that line, you understand everything else in this second half of his proposal.

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No B.S. Guide to Powerful Presentations

Automated Webinars: How to Present Without Being There

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Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings

Rousseau's Plan for Corsica Part 1: Building a Free Nation

In the Social Contract, Rousseau wrote one line that changed his life: “There is still one country in Europe fit to be given laws: it is the Isle of Corsica.” A Corsican patriot named Matthieu Buttafoco read that and wrote to Rousseau. Would he actually draft a constitution for the island? Rousseau said yes. This is what he came up with.

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Offshore: Stealth, Wealth, and the New Colonialism

Why Study Offshore Finance? Brooke Harrington's Personal Journey Into Secret Money

Most books about finance start with numbers. This one starts with a girl making dinner for her disabled sister on the wrong side of a very rich town.

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No B.S. Guide to Powerful Presentations

Treat Your Presentation Like a TV Show

Kennedy opens this chapter with a line that is hard to argue with: when they watch it on a screen, it is TV.

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Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings

Letters From the Mountains: Rousseau Fights Back

Most philosophers write about politics from the comfort of a study. Rousseau wrote these letters while in exile, with a warrant out for his arrest. His books had been burned. His own city had turned on him. This is not abstract theory. This is a man fighting back.

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Offshore: Stealth, Wealth, and the New Colonialism

Offshore by Brooke Harrington: A Book Retelling Series on Hidden Wealth and Secret Finance

You know how every few years a massive leak hits the news? The Panama Papers in 2016. The Paradise Papers in 2017. The Pandora Papers in 2021. Millions of documents showing how the world’s richest people hide money in offshore accounts, shell companies, and trusts scattered across tiny islands most of us can’t find on a map.

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Ordinary Men

Ordinary Men Chapter 13: The Strange Health of Captain Hoffmann

Every unit has that one guy. The boss who somehow always calls in sick on the worst days. The manager who vanishes right before the hardest shift. In Reserve Police Battalion 101, that guy was Captain Wolfgang Hoffmann. And the “worst days” he dodged were not bad meetings or tough deadlines. They were mass murder operations.

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No B.S. Guide to Powerful Presentations

The Power of Webinars and Online Presentations

For most of history, if you wanted to give a presentation, you had to physically go somewhere. Pack a bag, book a room, show up, speak. P.T. Barnum did it. Mark Twain did it. Business owners still do it every week at luncheons and hotel conference rooms.

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Letters From the Mountains: Rousseau Fights Back

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