Finance and Banking How the rich stay rich: A glimpse behind the velvet curtain Watch the UVA Democracy Biennial The Biennial was originally broadcast September 24-25, 2021 Watch now About this video March 04, 2020 Ruth Mason, Joseph J. Thorndike UVA's premier undergraduate research podcast, The Global Inquirer, hosts a special discussion about the significance of tax havens and the Panama Papers with Ruth Mason of UVA's School of Law and tax historian Joseph Thorndike.