Financial Transactions Tax

Tell Us Where It Hurts: Anna Deavere Smith's One-Woman Show

Kevin O'Donnell | Posted 05.22.2012

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Kevin O'Donnell

Every nurse I talked to earlier in the day at a rally in downtown Chicago and before the show had a similar personal story to add to the Smith's Tell Us Where It Hurts show. Not one nurse thought either the U.S. health care system or the U.S. economy was working.

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Wall Street's Speed Demons: A 10-Point Primer

Sarah Anderson | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Investment Banks, Wall Street Reform, High-Frequency Trading, Proprietary Trading, Hedge Funds, Flash Crash, Financial Transactions Tax, Business News
Sarah Anderson

Who are "high-frequency traders"? And what sort of games are they playing with our economic future? Here are 10 things you should know.

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Social Security and Medicare: Six Common Myths, Debunked

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Wealth Inequity, Payroll Tax Cap, Social Security, Medicare, Means-Testing, Financial Transactions Tax, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

In the coming days and weeks we'll be hearing a lot of misinformation about the Trustees Report from the Social Security Administration. It's time to separate the myths from the realities.

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Conservative Candidate Supports Wall Street Speculation Tax

Sarah Anderson | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Robin Hood Tax, Financial Crisis, Wall Street, Tobin Tax, Financial Transactions Tax, G8, World News
Sarah Anderson

Hardest hit would be the computer-driven high frequency trading that makes up about 55 percent of all trading on U.S. stock markets. Such warp speed robot trading played a role in the May 2010 "flash crash" and there are growing concerns that it could cause the next "Big One."

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EU Considering New Way To Make Banks Pay For Bailouts

AP | GABRIELE STEINHAUSER and JAN M. OLSEN | Posted 04.01.2012

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Tentative support from Sweden for a small levy on share purchases may open the door for a limited tax on financial transactions...

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Obama, Sarkozy and Taxing Wall Street

Jeff Cohen | Posted 03.12.2012

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Jeff Cohen

With U.S. media obsessing on the fight here at home among conservatives vying to become president, most of them missed some big news about France, where another conservative, Nicolas Sarkozy, is pushing a Financial Transaction Tax in his country.

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Dan Froomkin

Will Obama Embrace 'Robin Hood Tax'?

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: Robin Hood Tax, Harkin Defazio, Financial Transaction Tax, Transaction Tax, Financial Transactions Tax, Financial Speculation Tax, Tom Harkin, Peter DeFazio, Defazio Harkin, Obama 2012, Video, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Advocates of a tiny but lucrative tax on financial transactions are increasingly hopeful that President Barack Obama's need to more firm...

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Texas Tragedy Reminder of a Job for Robin Hood

Rose Ann DeMoro | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Robin Hood Tax, Wall Street, Nurses, Financial Transactions Tax, Economic Inequality, Income Inequality, Financial Trading Tax, Politics News
Rose Ann DeMoro

Enactment of a Robin Hood tax will be too late to help the families in Laredo and Kensington, Md., but for millions of other families falling through the cracks, a Robin Hood tax could be a vital lifeline.

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What a Supercommittee for the 99% Would Have Done

Sarah Anderson | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Taxes, Super Committee, Federal Budget Deficit, Carbon Tax, Financial Transactions Tax, Military Budget, Politics News
Sarah Anderson

Where do we want to be in 2031? We want the United States to be a healthier, more equitable and sustainable country that engages effectively with global partners to prevent conflict. Our proposed reforms would head us in that direction.

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Crash Tax: Wall Street Reparations

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: 1 Percent, James Tobin, Social Security, European Commission, George Soros, Financial Transactions Tax, Tom Harkin, Main Street, Bill Gates, Occupy Wall Street, Medicaid, Robin Hood Tax, Paul Volcker, Banksters, Rowan Williams, Nicolas Sarkozy, 99 Percent, Bank of America, Freddie Mac, Joseph Stiglitz, Wall Street, Peter DeFazio, Angela Merkel, Paul Krugman, Medicare, Fanny Mae, Crash Tax, Tobin Tax, Peter G. Peterson, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

It's time for Wall Street to pay reparations for the financial collapse it caused. It's time for a crash tax, a tiny sales tax on Wall Street transactions, the revenues from which would pay for Main Street restoration.

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It's Simple: You're Either For the Bank Tax or You're For the Banks

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Financial Transactions Tax, David Plouffe, Tom Harkin, Peter DeFazio, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Occupy Wall Street caught on quickly and dramatically, and has already achieved the seemingly impossible by changing the public dialog from what Washington wants to discuss -- deficits -- to what the rest of the country wants to talk about.

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Emerging Economies Join G20 Coalition to Tax Speculation

Sarah Anderson | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Robin Hood Tax, Bill Gates, g20, Financial Transactions Tax, World News
Sarah Anderson

The outcome? No home run, but some measurable steps forward.

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Light for the Dark Age of Banking

John Fullerton | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Robin Hood Tax, JP Morgan, Financial Transaction Tax, Ftt, Finance, Financial Reform, Financial Transactions Tax, Banks, Bill Gates, g20, Business News
John Fullerton

The Dark Age of Banking reaches its twelfth anniversary today, November 4. History will no doubt judge the Financial Modernization Act, repealing Glass-Steagall, as the beginning of the dark, modern banking era.

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Gates: Ignoring World's Poor 'Would Hurt Our Economic Future'

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Robin Hood Tax, Foreign Aid, Video, Financial Transactions Tax, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Warren Buffett, Obama Administration, Bill Gates, g20, Archbishop of Canterbury, Business News

Bill Gates says the world's developed nations need to ensure that they aid the world's poor. And the best way to do this, according to the billionaire...

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Gates Backs the Wall Street Tax at the G20 Summit

Sarah Anderson | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Robin Hood Tax, Wall Street Tax, Bill Gates, National Nurses United, g20, Financial Transactions Tax, Politics News
Sarah Anderson

The world's second-richest man and a group of American nurses on the frontlines of the Occupy Wall Street protests came to the G20 summit in Cannes, France this week to advocate for the same thing.

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Max J. Rosenthal

Sarkozy Optimistic At G20 On Global Transaction Tax In Wake Of Occupy Wall Street

HuffingtonPost.com | Max J. Rosenthal | Posted 01.03.2012

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WASHINGTON -- With Occupy Wall Street driving the political conversation in the United States, French President Nicolas Sarkozy expressed optimism Thu...

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Tax the One Percent -- Make Wall Street Fund America

Van Jones | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Peter DeFazio, Super Committee, Wall Street, Financial Transactions Tax, Tom Harkin, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News
Van Jones

A recently proposed Wall Street Tax on financial transactions would cover nearly all of the Super Committee's mandated deficit reductions. So Congress is about to face a telling choice. Will they vote to tax Wall Street gamblers in the 1%?

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Obama, the G20, and the 99 Percent

Jeffrey Sachs | Posted 01.01.2012

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Jeffrey Sachs

If President Obama is true to his recent words sympathizing with Occupy Wall Street, he will join President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel in supporting the Financial Transactions Tax at the G20 this week.

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Why We Need a Financial Transactions Tax

John Fullerton | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Keynesian Economics, James Tobin, Financial Transaction Tax, John Maynard Keynes, Finance, Tobin Tax, Financial Reform, Financial Transactions Tax, Business News
John Fullerton

The truth is simple: A modest financial transactions tax of less than 1 percent would serve as a remarkably efficient tool to achieve needed reform.

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Our Demand: Increase Social Security Benefits

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jonathan Tasini

You must not believe that we are in a financial debt or deficit "crisis." It is a complete sham. The problem is that our leaders do not have the spine to go after the rich and the powerful.

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It's Not Raining, We're Getting Peed On (4): The Scam of the Deficit Crisis

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jonathan Tasini

Over the past three days, we've looked at the phony deficit crisis withe excerpts from my new book, "It's Not Raining, We're Getting Peed On: The S...

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Wall Street Reform: Five Key Fights After the Bill Is Signed

Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Zach Carter

The Wall Street bill has much to be said for it, but the unfortunate truth is that it ducks several of the most critical reforms needed to protect our economy from banker abuse.

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The Priority of Growth and Jobs -- the IMF's Dialogue With the Unions

Dominique Strauss-Kahn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economic Cooperation, Fiscal Consolidation, Financial Transactions Tax, Economic Nationalism, Social Conditionality, Debt Sustainability, Labor Movement, International Trade Unions, Exchange Rate Flexibility, Social Protection, Business News
Dominique Strauss-Kahn

While the IMF and the labor movement might have some differing views, our goals are ultimately the same -- standing against narrow domestic interests, against nationalism, against war. And standing for better living standards for all, and for peace.

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Road Rage and the G20

John Feffer | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Feffer

Anti-government rhetoric is all the rage these days. And "rage" is the operative word here. Small-government enthusiasts are like the drivers of Humme...

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Weekly Audit: Why Democrats Must Focus on Jobs Now

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The American Prospect, Jobs Bill, Hedge Fund Loophole, Financial Transactions Tax, Financial Speculation Tax, Jobs, Sarah Anderson, YES! Magazine, Billionaire Tax, Unemployment Rate, Robert Greenwald, Defense Budget, Alternet, Art Levin, Wall Street Tax, Deficit, Unemployment, Tim Fernholz, Defense Spending, In These Times, Wall Street, Economy, Home News
The Media Consortium

by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger The job market in its worst state since the Great Depression and is putting tremendous strain on millions of...

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