Tobin Tax

Geithner Interviewed By Bloomberg: Says Goldman Would Have Failed, Dismisses Tobin Tax (VIDEO)

Posted 12.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Geithner, Bailout, Tobin Tax, Treasury, Financial Crisis, Timothy Geithner, Bank Bailout, Goldman, Business News

During an interview this week on Bloomberg's Political Capital with Al Hunt, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner disputed claims made by Goldman Sachs...

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Goldman's Profits Come from Our Pockets: Why We Need a Tobin Tax

Ellen Brown | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Traders, Program Trading, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Bailout, Tobin Tax, Sales Tax, G20 Summit, Joseph Stiglitz, IMF Funding, United Nations, Economic Stimulus, Business News
Ellen Brown

While Wall Street's welfare queens have been busy collecting generous government handouts, the 50 states have been left to fend for themselves.

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Mark Thoma on Sane Markets

Robert Teitelman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Robert Teitelman, Market Efficiency, Tobin Tax, Market Reform, Financial Reform, Business News
Robert Teitelman

The response to volatile markets is not plain-vanilla financial products, but more complex products that use market mechanisms to cope with uncertainty. Plain vanilla can be as ugly as adjustable-rate mortgages.

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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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Beyond the Tobin Tax: End the Free Ride for the Financial Sector and Impose Fees to Revive the Economy

Kyle G. Brown | Posted 11.28.2009 | Business

Read More: G20 Summit, G20 Meeting, Trade, Money, Finance, Tobin Tax, Banking Crisis, Banks, Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, g20, Pittsburgh, Business News
Kyle G. Brown

The most reliable way to expand tax revenues would be to impose a modest fee on every stock, every bond -- in short, every financial transaction.

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A Virtuous Tax

Robert Kuttner | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: James Tobin, Populism, Adair Turner, Tobin Tax, Financial Regulation, Peer Steinbrueck, Financial Collapse, Politics News
Robert Kuttner

A little bit of populist retribution is overdue against the people who brought down the system -- and will bring it down again if the hegemony of the traders is not constrained.

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Labor Day Special: Reward Real Work, Tax Fantasy Finance

Les Leopold | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Taxes, Financial Crisis, Congress, Wall Street, Wall Street Bonuses, Economic Crisis, Tobin Tax, Business News
Les Leopold

We fought a war of independence to free us from aristocratic rule. Now an aristocracy of wealth is taking over, again, even after we watched it wreck the entire economy.

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