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it does seem the % of hypocrites in this thread appears to be a bit on the high side. 20 years ago daytraders were taking the money from the little people, now hft is taking the money from the daytraders. what's the difference? hft is essentially a daytrader, but simply a hell of a lot faster...

interesting bet, as finland spoke out in favour of the tax a few times already.

to add to that article: in the letter that was written the dutch not only say they want to look for alternatives, but they also wrote they are now adopting an official anti-ftt opinion. altough there could be new elections around the corner because of budget cuts trouble, for now this is good...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,820965,00.html

the part that was really sad btw was the french contribution. all the rhetoric about how the european population thinks the financial sector is undertaxed, should pay its fair share, bla bla bla, and then that french dude says: well, if we can't get agreement on a euro-wide ftt, maybe our own...

i watched the meeting as well. it was encouraging the opposite was happening of what you just described. germany still indicated it wanted an ftt, but actually mentioned the word "alternative plan" for the very first time. finland spoke about it being useless "to keep trying to move the...

i remember that. it was a charity interest group that said they neither opposed or objected to the ftt, but if there ever would be an ftt, they demanded an exemption for charities. ironically oxfam is a member of that group. so while trying to force the ftt down the throat of the public on the...

nice.. if he really feels that way though, repeal the uk stamp tax..

full story http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-10/eu-trading-tax-may-wipe-10-from-stocks-valuation-hsbc-says.html

first holland said they wanted to wait for their CPB-findings -> these findings were extremely negative then holland said they had studied the cpb-report, but found the cpb wasn't able to comment on all relevant areas, and that they had asked the dutch national bank and the financial...

it's somewhat encouraging all 8 countries are "the usual suspects", countries which we knew were pro-ftt. no doubt baroin tried to get as many countries on-board as possible, so there are also 8 euro-countries (and a number of eu-countries) that didn't sign on.

the press-conference was about the new EU report on the effects of an FTT. it was classic, stand up comedy. Filled with pro-FTT bullshit that has already been disproven extensively, and two elder ladies (one of which is supposedly a professor of some sort) who clearly had no idea what they were...

second dutch government institute that speaks out against the ftt; the dutch government can't keep ignoring these comments. in 15 minutes the European Parliament will hold a live press conference on smth ftt-related. no idea what, could be completely unimportant, but it is live...

maybe (hopefully) cameron and merkel struck some kind of deal. uk to be more open minded towards european integration, germany to drop their anti-uk tax plans (ftt). i know, wishful thinking.

i honestly don't think they are. at this stage it isn't even clear whether revenues of an ftt would go to the EC or individual countries, let alone a possible eu-wide stamp tax.

he's a complete idiot, but also is getting more and more isolated in his views. i'm much more worried by this stamp tax "compromise" that seems to be coming more consistently from the german ranks now, than on the ftt-hardliners. the stamp tax might actually be politically do-able, especially...

i'm not arguing with you what caused the mortgage crisis. ultimately it's more important what the public perception is of what caused the crisis. and let's face it, public perception (at least in europe, must be the same in the us) is banks need to hang. nobody cares about us. so a measure that...

let obama have his bank levy, i honestly don't care. really, it's best for all of us if obama's current measuress come through without a fight. let the banks pay. if it's done right, the public will be happy and the whole ftt-thing will die down. the worst case scenario is nothing will change...

let's hope it's a misquote. polite? maybe. but in the past he didn't really strike me as the polite kind of person. when the ftt was discussed in october he was pretty vocal against it, not much politeness there then. that makes this quote even more strange.

i agree. it's an excellent feature ib has to hold balances in several different currencies and it's a very useful tool if you know how to use it. obviously, if you don't, that's another story, but that goes for everything ib offers. look at it as two different accounts. the fact you have 1000...