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Finanical Crisis

Time for Economic Polluters to Pay Up? Tobin or not Tobin...

Sony Kapoor | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Merkel, Financial Transaction Taxes, G-20, Sarkozy, Tobin Tax, Keynes, Economic Bailout, Economic Collapse, Bailout, Economics, Economy, Government Spending, Finanical Crisis, Fiscal Policy, Business News
Sony Kapoor

The financial crisis, the biggest in living memory, has tilted the political and financial landscape in a direction that makes Tobin Taxes not just more desirable but also much easier to implement.

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Paulson Defends His Response To Financial Crisis

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 08.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Finanical-Crisis, Bank of America, Fed Chairman, Hank Paulson, Federal Reserve, Business News

WASHINGTON — Defending the government's handling of the economic crisis last year, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Wednesday that t...

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Gross, Bond King: Greed Will Soon Return To Wall St.

Reuters | Jennifer Ablan | Posted 08.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Finanical-Crisis, Greed, Pimco, Corporate Greed, Bill Gross, Consumers, Wall Street, New York-New York, Business News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bill Gross, the influential investor who runs top bond fund Pimco, said on Wednesday that greed will eventually become the norm a...

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Ritholtz: Why Does UBS Still Employ Phil Gramm?

The Big Picture | Barry Rithholtz | Posted 07.31.2009 | Business

Read More: Phil Gramm, Deregulation, Finanical Regulation, Barry-Ritholtz, Finanical Crisis, Business News

Last week, UBS announced a 2nd Quarter loss "due to restructuring charges." The banking giant is raising $3.45 billion in a stock sale. Partly owned ...

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