I note this chart of the oil price over the last year. It comes from the invaluable Trading Economics website. It is correct to Last
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A financial transaction tax for Germany? It would be a game changer for Europe
The FT notes this morning: Germany’s opposition Social Democrats cleared the way on Sunday for weeks of hard bargaining on a coalition agreement with Chancellor Angela
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Italy starts high frequency trading tax – on deals lasting less than half a second
As the FT reports this morning: Italy will on Monday become the first country to introduce a tax on high-frequency trading in a move that
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Labour needs to adopt a unilateral approach to the Financial Transaction Tax
Chris Leslie MP, a member of the Labour shadow treasury team, said this in his weekly email to constituents and other interested parties yesterday: The
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The financial transaction tax is on its way
Fantastic news from Europe, via the BBC: EU ministers have given the go ahead for 11 eurozone members, including France and Germany, to prepare a new
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Taxing banks – or why we need a Robin Hood Tax
As I’ve mentioned already today, this is a week of pretty intense campaigning for a Robin Hood Tax – a tax on financial transactions. I wrote about
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Worstall’s odd little note on Financial Transaction Taxes
Tim Worstall, who likes to think of himself as my bete noire, but who is actually a rather pedantic former UKIP press secretary (which explains why
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Tobin’s time has come
I wrote the following for CIPFA’s Public Finance blog last week and now share it here: “A decade ago almost no one had ever heard of Tobin
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In case we forget why….
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