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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- There is a relatively easy answer to
the financial troubles of Europe, America and Asia.  The answer
lies in so-called "tax havens." A consensus is emerging among
the world's major taxing powers that tax evasion may not be a
good thing.  Starbucks (SBUX) is being grilled over its
avoidance of European taxes, writes The Guardian , and anger is
sure to grow over a Los Angeles Times report that Apple (AAPL)
paid just 2% in taxes on its profits.  Tax evasion can be a
simple matter of moving money around various tax havens around
the world. They exist everywhere. The system's defenders insist
it's all perfectly legal. Maybe it is, but laws can change.  In
some ways, according to the Financial Secrecy Index , the U.S.
is a tax haven.  Our treatment of assets held by foreigners and
shell corporations, which actually became better for those
foreign entities under George W. Bush, put us on the list. Bush
himself was speaking in th