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Lights, Camera, Tax Break from Cautionary Tales

2025/2/28
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Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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When Ernest Borgnine gets his big break in Hollywood, he can hardly believe his luck. But soon he discovers his supposed star vehicle, Marty, is not the dream gig he thought it was. In this episode of Cautionary Tales, recorded live at the Bristol Festival of Economics, Tim Harford examines what happens when the murky world of tax avoidance collides with the glitz and glamour of Hollywood.

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