{"id":5431,"date":"2009-11-27T17:17:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T15:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=5431"},"modified":"2009-11-27T17:17:24","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T15:17:24","slug":"krugman-on-the-financial-transaction-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/11\/27\/krugman-on-the-financial-transaction-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Krugman on the Financial Transaction Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/27\/opinion\/27krugman.html?_r=2\">Op-Ed Columnist - Taxing the Speculators - NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Should we use taxes to deter financial speculation? Yes, say top British officials, who oversee the City of London, one of the world&rsquo;s two great banking centers. Other European governments agree \u00e2\u20ac\u0161\u00c3\u201e\u00c3\u00ae and they&rsquo;re right.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, United States officials \u00e2\u20ac\u0161\u00c3\u201e\u00c3\u00ae especially Timothy Geithner, the Treasury secretary \u00e2\u20ac\u0161\u00c3\u201e\u00c3\u00ae are dead set against the proposal. Let&rsquo;s hope they reconsider: a financial transactions tax is an idea whose time has come.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Op-Ed Columnist &#8211; Taxing the Speculators &#8211; NYTimes.com. Should we use taxes to deter financial speculation? Yes, say top British officials, who oversee the City<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/11\/27\/krugman-on-the-financial-transaction-tax\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transaction-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}