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Anyone happen to know what time the Bernanke vote is today? Can't seem to find the exact time anywhere.

I agree with this 100% and would also include liberal blogs like Huffington Post and the many others that have written pro-FTT articles. They know where their traffic is coming from, and it may just inspire them to write more articles if they think they're being attacked by a bunch of traders...

That's how I interpreted it as well. If true, that's obviously good news. I'll be on the lookout for further confirmation.

FTT <b><u>not</b></u> discussed at today's summit meeting: "At last year's G7 summit in St Andrews, Gordon Brown suggested the introduction of a transaction tax, <b>although Lord Myners said that this was not discussed at Monday's meeting.</b> " http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8478227.stm

It sounds like the celebs are going to be throwing a lot of money into their British campaign for the trans tax . . . Movie theaters and billboards? Really??? <b>"Starting soon, in movie theaters, advertisements, and billboards, St. Madonna will appear, like a vision, and explain that there...

The funny side is that the celebrities are proposing a tax rate that actually has a chance to be adopted (0.005%), unlike the trained economists like Baker who are throwing out rates like 0.25% that have no chance. In other news, a Senator (R) who is also a member of the House Financial...

Anyone have any idea what this may mean? Hopefully just shoddy reporting: <b>"Amid signs that key opponents of a transaction tax in Obama's administration have been sidelined . . . "</b> Who in the heck would that be? From today's article...

Are you saying that ZenFire has a new software platform designed specially for their feed that's not Ninja? If so, do you know what it's called? They don't list anything like this on their site: http://www.zen-fire.com/pages/platforms/platforms.html

Hearing the Prez call out "churning transactions" as a problem is not at all encouraging since that exact phrase has been used by Baker and other progressives throughout their push for FTT (as well as "doesn't add value to the economy"). Here's to hoping that Turbo Timmy stays put until at...

Did she specify who "they" are?

World Health Organization now calling for some sort of transaction tax (FTT mentioned in middle of article): http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583127,00.html

Agree 100%. It's time to turn this hot, controversial topic into a boring, stale topic. The snotty-nosed bloggers and desperate reporters will simply move along to the next story.

There's a new WSJ article on the trans tax. It concludes with the following statement: But Mr. DeFazio's bill would tax transactions by U.S. citizens no matter where they occur. To escape the tax, he says, people would have to move their citizenship, not just their money. I've read the...

The book has a pretty nice discussion of failure patterns: failed breakouts, failed highs/lows, failed final flags, failed failures, etc.

3 from NY and 2 from IL :confused:

Something to consider for his timing -- he's either going to hold an election in late March or early May -- the IMF report is due sometime in April -- his opponent has called the tax “literally hopeless” -- even if the report comes back favorable for the tax, Brown might not be around to...

I'd love to see Defazio and Krugman try to directly bash farmers and ranchers as participants of "socially useless" behavior.

True, but they just gave a good example of how to fight a tax -- get a quote from an average joe about how harmful the tax will be -- then get that quote into the MSM . . . . . Hey, no fair, why can't we do that? :) "I support health care reform but I can't afford this tax," Valerie Castle...

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) weighs in: Grassley worries that taxing stock transactions would result in job losses http://www.agriculture.com/ag/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/ag/story/data/1260303022182.xml

(4) CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS I'm surprised that none of the recent articles about this bill have mentioned anything about idea of taxing credit default swaps. Correct me if I'm wrong, but since these instruments aren't currently regulated or really even tracked in a manner transparent enough to...