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We're often told (by people not usually known for their compassion towards the poor old workers) that a Robin Hood Tax would hurt pensioners by eating away at the value of pension funds. It's nonsense, as several very detailed research papers produced by international pension experts have shown. Financial Transaction Taxes would have little impact on pension funds compared with the management fees that finance houses charge (if those city traders really...
On the 5th July 2012 The United Nations (UN) released the World Economic and Social Survey produced annually by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
Following the advice of United Nations experts back in May 2012, “The United Nations is proposing an international tax, combined with other...
This blog originally appeared on Huffington Post.
Not everybody in the financial industry is like Jamie Dimon. They do not all think the financial system is running like a charm, aside from a few "isolated incidents" like a $2 billion trading loss.
No, it's important to remember that the financial...
This blog originally appeared on Liberal Conspiracy.
Tomorrow the finance ministers of Europe will gather in Luxemburg to discuss the problems besetting Europe’s economies. It will be a grim meeting.
But at the end of the agenda, like ‘hope’ at the bottom of Pandora’s Box, there is a...
