Trumpka is caught in a conflict of interest. Public-worker unions receive a large share of government spending and their contracts, compensation,...
House Republicans vote to cut the CFTC budget, reducing the impact of Dodd-Frank Fin Reg's overreach. http://nyti.ms/hd9TZk This makes Obama's...
FTT really means Financial Trumpka Tax. Per a WSJ op-ed this week, almost every tax hike proposal over the past few years was pushed by greedy...
I've thought all along that FTT is a diversion for Sarkozy and Merkel. They know it won't happen and it's a bad idea but it placates the finance...
FTT supporters rally-cry about banks causing the recession, and argue a FTT will make Wall Street banks pay back Main Street. The Dodd-Frank...
As pointed out by others, President Obama has a user fee or FTT in his brand new 2012 budget intended to finance growth at the CFTC. It's not a...
Great simple rebuttal to Sarkozy from Japan's economy minister, that FTT is 'duplicated taxation, defective and fundamentally unfair.' Absolutely...
Bad day today for FTT opponents. Haven't seen this many links for FTT in google alerts for some time. On Jan 24, 2011, at 10:33 PM, Google...
Why tax investors (with a FTT) for Wall Street bailouts? Plus, Wall Street paid back TARP once and now faces paying it back twice with President...
EU FTT versus FAT. The main argument against FTT is it falls on consumers (investors). That's a good enough reason to block it in the US, but...
Per wikipedia on Semeta, he is affiliated with the European Peoples Party, which advocates pan-EU fiscal and monetary policy. As I've predicted...
Scrouge De-Fazio won't give it up. http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/12/09/house-democrats-reject-tax-deal-in-symbolic-vote/
Global Macro EconoMonitor. http://www.roubini.com/globalmacro-monitor/260019/time_for_a_financial_transaction_tax As a matter fact, 23...
I (along with our Traders Association) am on this story too. In a Webinar we did with Rockwell Trading on Wed 10/27, their CEO was complaining...
Glad the US doesn't have a hot money inflow problem like Brazil and doesn't need a FTT to slow down inflows. It would be inappropriate and even...
EU Finance Ministers Seek to End Bank Tax Row By Reuters Friday, October 01, 2010...
Reply to IMF FTT update article above - in my Google alert last night. Glad you pointed out it may not be an official IMF position change. I'm...
http://m.thelocal.de/politics/20100915-29843.html Merkel won't give up on FTT. But this article seems to portray internal German politics. FTT...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704358904575477141643676272.html A proposal for a financial-transaction tax (FTT) got a weak...
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/09/07/business-eu-eu-financial-crisis_7905765.html?boxes=Homepagetopnews EU nations OK financial supervision...
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