Just done a gig under the above title for the New Economics Foundation at Amnesty International’s offices in London. The subject – taxing banks. Dave
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As the Guardian reports, the European Parliament yesterday backed the introduction of a €200bn (£172bn) a year financial transactions tax on banks to discourage speculative
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The government has published legislation for the new thank you levy. They say it will raise £2.5 billion a year – curiously, a figure lower
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As the FT notes: Investors in eurozone bond markets stand accused of letting “animal spirits” affect their judgment on the risk of a European debt
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As Owen Tudor has noted on the TUC blog: Yesterday the IMF finally released its study on the financial transactions tax. The paper, a draft
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That’s not me. That US Congressman Pete Stark writing in the FT saying: Before I came to the US Congress, I was a banker —
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As the Observer notes today: European Union finance ministers will step up talks on raising extra money from banks this week amid signs that the
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Do you remember all the doom and gloom merchants form the City (and more especially, the political right) who predicted that if the volume of
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My blog, posted whilst I was away, about a man from the British Bankers’ Association politely defacing a Robin Hood Tax poster in one of
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