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Harkin favors taxing stock transactions http://www.thehawkeye.com/story/harkin-jobs-120509 Harkin said a bill already has been introduced in the House by Rep. Bruce Braley, D-1st District, and Rep. Peter DeFazio, an Oregon Democrat. "Until 1966, the United States taxed all stock...

Currency Transaction Tax A tax on the global financial sector can finance development. When the time comes, a collective decision will have to be made. Let’s be clear about this, we are not proposing a Tobin tax, whose primary objective was to regulate an excessively erratic currency...

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/12/if-economy-lost-jobs-why-did.html http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/12/unemployment-record-number-unemployed.html Some interesting analysis there; I am concerned still that it may be a long, hard slog.

A Rational Objection to the Trader Tax from Eric Jackson http://thereformedbroker.com/2009/11/27/a-rational-objection-to-the-trader-tax-from-eric-jackson/ While I support Cramer’s interest in seeing job creation flourish in America, I completely disagree that the “trader tax”...

geithner on bloomberg set the tivo for 6:30 pm political capitol is the show

Harkin http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2009/12/04/harkin-backs-tax-on-wall-street-transactions/ Harkin said the measure was not intended to punish Wall Street. However, he and others in Congress have been very critical about how the industry was seen as spending the...

cnbc trader tax segment now

cnbc segment on tax at 10:20 apparently scott redler

This article was posted when it came out but its important so reminder useful

Local Illinois Article http://www.qctimes.com/business/article_78fb8aaa-e086-11de-84bb-001cc4c002e0.html Not much new there just somethng to be aware of

It’s Time to Tax Wall Street’s Risky Behavior http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/03-18

Decent quote "Nearly every American would be impacted by a new transaction tax, no matter how small it is," Steve Bartlett, the president of the roundtable, said in a statement minutes after Pelosi's news conference, adding that the tax "would erect a roadblock" for capital flowing through...

geithner asked about transaction tax on fox rough paraphrase (I failed to tape it): That specifically is not the way to go, some sort of fees on wall street institutions is the way to go to save the tax payer from future bailouts'

http://www.foxbusiness.com/happyhour/live.html go there now u can submit questions liz claiman interview with tim geithner just started

Wall St tax has "great deal of merit" - Pelosi http://www.reuters.com/article/BROKER/idUSN0311827720091203 * Comments suggest tax could end up in House jobs package * Tax faces resistance in Senate, White House * Lawmakers vent anger at Wall Street (New throughout, adds byline) By...

Like IMF, EU plots to revive Tobin tax http://www.euractiv.com/en/financial-services/imf-eu-plots-revive-tobin-tax/article-187970 Following in the footsteps of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), EU policymakers are scrutinising once more the idea of introducing a financial...

Guardian again http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/dec/03/tobin-tax-america-galbraith-geithner More than 200 American economists have thrown their weight behind a campaign for a so-called Tobin tax on financial transactions, adding weight to pressure on the Obama administration to...

Jason Ruspini on the Tobin Tax http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/11/28/paul-krugman-tobin-tax/ At some point the argument of transaction tax proponents comes down to the following: Hey, short term traders are “socially useless,” so screw them. People will agree with Krugman’s article...

Robert J. Shapiro--How to Create New Jobs in a Troubled Economy http://ndn.org/blog/2009/12/how-create-new-jobs-troubled-economy So, the country has a serious problem with jobs, one which requires serious responses. A little more stimulus can play a role here, especially targeted to state...

Arvind Subramanian--Coordinated Capital Controls: A Further Argument In Favor http://www.piie.com/realtime/?p=1077 Paul Krugman, in a column last month for the New York Times, endorsed a tax on financial transactions, proposed recently by Adair Turner, Britain’s top financial...