{"id":192589,"date":"2009-03-16T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/16\/the-end-of-a-banking-era\/"},"modified":"2009-03-16T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T22:41:00","slug":"the-end-of-a-banking-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/16\/the-end-of-a-banking-era\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of a Banking Era?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It now appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/euobserver.com\/9\/27775\">Switzerland, Austria, Lichtenstein, Andorra,  and Luxembourg will be relaxing their banking secrecy laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how much of this is a recognition of how much the wind has changed on this issue, or a recognition that with a few thousand accounts on a thumb drive, a clerk could, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/abc-news-day-of-reckoning-super-rich.html\">clerk already has<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In either case, I hope that in the future, the big people will pay taxes too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It now appears that Switzerland, Austria, Lichtenstein, Andorra, and Luxembourg will be relaxing their banking secrecy laws. I&#8217;m not sure how much of this is a recognition of how much the wind has changed on this issue, or a recognition that with a few thousand accounts on a thumb drive, a clerk could, and a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,985,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-regulation","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}