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22 Jun 12
Robin Hood Tax takes a massive step forward in Europe
Campaigners in Brussels call for a Robin Hood Tax
Posted by TUC
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Today, EU finance ministers met in Luxemburg and took a massive step forwards, bringing a Robin Hood Tax closer to realisation than ever before. They did so by agreeing that they couldn’t agree an EU-wide tax, a major victory for ...

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22 Jun 12
Financial professionals break rank and support Robin Hood Tax
Robin Hood Tax campaigners in New York
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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...

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31 May 12
Every day, a Robin Hood Tax is getting closer
Robin Hood Tax campaigners in Germany
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Having declined to meet him when he was the mere challenger for President of France, UK Prime Minister David Cameron reportedly used his first official meeting with Francois Hollande to tell him not to pursue the Financial Transactions Tax (FTT) that both Hollande and his predecessor  Nicholas Sarkozy support.

It is another example of Britain being out of step with the major economies of Europe. In Germany, both Angela Merkel’s CDU and the...

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28 May 12
Robin Hood: backed by the rich, backed by the rest, says new poll
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There’s lots of interesting material in the opinion poll released to mark the launch of the new CLASS think-tank today, and there will no doubt be a lot of ...

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