Over the weekend, the "Paradise Papers," a.k.a. the Panama Papers’, fresher, hipper sequel, revealed that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, among many others, has sheltered part of his multi-billion dollar fortune in offshore tax havens. The mere fact that Ross, who amassed his considerable net worth in part by shuffling thousands of U.S jobs overseas, has stashed some of his money away from the prying eyes of, say, the I.R.S., should not come as a shock, and not just because he’s one of the richest people in the inner circle of Donald "I want people who made a fortune" Trump, but because everything about him—from his membership in a secret Wall Street fraternity to his $500 custom-embroidered slippers to his complaints about the 1 percent being "picked on" screams offshore accounts.

This news that did give people pause, however, was that even after being named commerce secretary under a president who has a little bit of a Russia problem, Ross decided not to disclose his investments in a shipping firm that has ties to a little-known guy named Vladimir Putin. (The company, Navigator Holdings, earns millions each year transporting gas for a Russian energy company called Sibur, whose owners include Gennady Timchenko, a judo partner of Vlad’s who’s been sanctioned by the U.S., and Kirill Shamalov, Putin’s son-in-law.) But if you ask Ross, absolutely nothing unethical is going on. In the wake of statements by lawmakers like Senator Richard Blumenthal, who said that he was "astonished and appalled by the news," the tycoon-turned-public servant appeared on BBC on Monday to set the record straight.

"There’s nothing whatsoever improper about Navigator having a relationship with Sibur," Ross said in an interview with the BBC’s Kamal Ahmed. "The fact that [Sibur] happens to be called a Russian company does not mean there’s any evil in it. . . . If our government decided to sanction [Sibur], that would be a different story. Our government has not made the determination to sanction [Sibur], so there’s nothing wrong with that. Where there is evil, is the misstatement that I did not disclose those holdings in my original form." You hear that, haters and losers? You are the evil ones. Ross is just an innocent old billionaire trying to put America First.

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Donald Trump finally takes credit for something

"The reason our stock market is so successful is because of me," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Monday. "I’ve always been great with money, I’ve always been great with jobs, that’s what I do. And I’ve done it well, I’ve done it really well, much better than people understand and they understand I’ve done well."

Analysis: tax bill would help a very specific, very orange type of rich person

On Monday, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy released its preliminary findings of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and if you’re an elected official trying to sell this thing as great for the little guy, the findings aren’t likely to help. According to the report’s authors, almost one-third of the tax plan’s benefits would go to the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans in 2018—by 2027, 1-percenters would enjoy almost half of said benefits. Meanwhile the middle class would receive 10 percent of the benefits in 2018 and a mere 8 percent in 2027, owing in part to the fact that some measures in the bill that help the middle class—lower tax rates, a $300 tax credit for each adult in a household, an increased standard deduction—will either expire or be reduced over time (while things like the estate tax get better as time goes on).