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Sunday, January 10, 2016

10/1/6: After the Flood Comes the Tax: European Road to Financial Transactions Tax

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New paper, forthcoming as Chapter 10 in Lessons from the Great Recession: At the Crossroads of Sustainability and Recovery , edited by Con...

Saturday, March 8, 2014

8/3/2014: FTT - More Benign Estimates of Impact?

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In recent years, I have written extensively about the problems relating to the introduction of a Tobin-styled FTT, including as proposed b...

Friday, June 14, 2013

14/6/2013: EU's FTT: One Tax, Multiple Problems

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FTT - Financial Transactions Tax - has been the pet project of pure love for Eurocrats and Socialistas in the Member States, hungry for rev...

Thursday, May 30, 2013

30/5/2013: FTT: Up, Down, Down again: Climbing Political Hillocks in Europe

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Looks like the EU is now climbing down another over-hyped policy hillock. After scrapping plans to ban / regulate olive oil in restaurants,...

Sunday, May 26, 2013

26/5/2013: FTT v Sovereigns' Addiction to Debt

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FT.com reports ( http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c3121802-c480-11e2-9ac0-00144feab7de.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_us%2Ffeed%2...

Friday, November 16, 2012

16/11/2012: FTT - two bits of new evidence

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Financial Transactions Tax news: First we have new research from the Bank of Canada ( link here ) stating: "Little evidence is fou...

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