A novel form of organized crime involves gangs buying small, established freight forwarding businesses. They leverage the company's legitimate reputation to take possession of high-value shipping containers, steal the goods, and then promptly shut down the business and disappear, making the crime nearly untraceable.

Large tech companies are creating SPVs—separate legal entities—to build data centers. This strategy allows them to take on significant debt for AI infrastructure projects without that debt appearing on the parent company's balance sheet. This protects their pristine credit ratings, enabling them to borrow money more cheaply for other ventures.

Price caps can devastate small-time landlords, like retirees dependent on rental income, by setting rent below their costs for taxes and maintenance. This turns the property into a money-losing asset that is impossible to sell, effectively destroying the owner's life savings and retirement plan.

A seemingly quirky tax dodge, like a snail farm in a London office, has far-reaching consequences. Because a large portion of local business rates goes to the national treasury, revenue lost from one wealthy council directly reduces funds available for essential services, like social care, in other parts of the country.

Unlike convertible notes, the SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) often lacks an expiration date or protective provisions. This loophole is reportedly being abused by some founders who take investment, fail to build, and then argue that SAFE holders aren't technically investors and are owed nothing.

Instead of focusing on changing the tax code, the most significant tax benefit for the ultra-wealthy has come from systematically cutting the IRS budget. This prevents the agency from auditing complex returns, effectively making the wealthy 'protected by the law, but not bound by it,' and creating a massive enforcement gap.

Cash-rich hyperscalers like Meta utilize Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) to finance data centers. This strategy keeps billions in debt off their main balance sheets, appeasing shareholders and protecting credit ratings, but creates complex and opaque financial structures.

Meta is using off-balance-sheet "special purpose vehicles" (SPVs) to finance its AI data centers. This financial engineering obscures the true scale of its capital commitments by keeping massive debt and assets off its main balance sheet, a tactic explicitly compared to the controversial methods used by Enron.

When a bank forced Clayton Motors into bankruptcy and seized its assets, Jim Clayton formed a new corporation. This new, legally distinct entity then bid at the bank's auction, buying back its own inventory at bargain prices and relaunching the business almost immediately.