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INVESTING | 10/17/2011 @ 8:56AM |24,601 views Congress Would Say 'Nein, Nein, Nein' To Cain's 9-9-9 Tax Plan Robert A. Green, CPA, Contributor http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2011/10/17/congress-would-say-nein-nein-nein-to-cains-9-9-9-tax-plan/ It was most popular on...

Couple of my Comment posts today. OWS Robin Hood Tax on adbusters. Plus, my OWS Forbes blog with FTT flag raising by OWS I wrote on adbusters: anonymous In your rush to be Robin Hood, is it okay to rob from your Dad too? While you’ve been protesting on Wall Street, your Dad probably...

Get ready for another power play in Europe between Germany versus the US and BRIC-powered IMF and G-20. Merkel is using US-style play chicken and hold hostage games on the bailout financing. Merkel. No leveraged and juiced up ESFS, unless FTT is adopted everywhere to pay for the bailouts...

Thanks for your nice comments and support. I think this OWS movement is going to grow much bigger, and it's already huge. It's the first time social media has blown up something like this really big, maybe even bigger than the Tea Party. President Obama is our first “campaign organizer”...

Thanks nutmeg. If you can help, I need some supportive comments on my Forbes blog. A few OWS and FTT pushers (financial-transaction tax) really jumped hard on me in a negative way...

INVESTING | 10/13/2011 @ 12:45PM Should Occupy Wall Street Occupy Silicon Valley Instead? http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2011/10/13/should-occupy-wall-street-occupy-silicon-valley-instead/ Robert A. Green, CPA, Forbes Contributor

Agree with you. I am not marshaling trader troops to march on Brussels at this time. In an ideal world - not our case - it would be nice to see how the financial markets would be with a destructive FTT in place. To be able to show the damage so officials would table the tax motion. They...

I just submitted this to Forbes for my blog on Great Speculations. A proposal for a financial-transactions tax (FTT) is now entrenched in the EU, with proponents facing off against opponents. Debating points have been made over and over and the respective parties agree to disagree. It’s...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/tax/8804932/MEPs-plot-to-impose-financial-transaction-tax-on-UK.html British MEP in EU parliament warns that Barroso is trying to overcome a UK veto of FTT by calling it a VAT on transactions rather than FTT. VAT is the one tax...

Forbes blog INVESTING | 10/03/2011 @ 12:06PM Financial Transaction Tax Won't Help Europe Get Back On Track By Robert A. Green, CPA, Contributor http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2011/10/03/financial-transaction-tax-wont-help-europe-get-back-on-track/ Please click on my...

My latest thinking. If Europe can hold it together with the Greece and PIIGS fiscal-train wreck, then Franco-German-Brussels EU federalists may get their FTT in the euro-zone or entire EU-wide. They need an EU tax to solidify and pay for an EU-fiscal union. If German taxpayers have to...

This just showed up in my RIA tax service for CPA firms: New developments at a glance–– [Top] European Commission proposes tax on financial transactions: The European Commission, September 28, formally adopted a proposal for a bloc-wide financial transaction tax (FTT) that would be...

I've been involved in this story. See my July 12th blog: Are lower 60/40 tax rates on futures in jeopardy? http://www.greencompany.com/blog/index.php?postid=116 Excerpt: Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times interviewed me about the history and future status of lower 60/40 tax...

This is disturbing if true and I hope it's not possible. It reminds me of the U.S. CFTC’s global overreach on the new forex regulations for retail off-exchange forex trading by Americans. The CFTC blocked Americans from using offshore forex brokers and banks unless those brokers registered...

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/eae0db9c-dea5-11e0-a228-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1YOltfKfs Confusing article on UK position on FTT. Parts of it struggle to justify and design a FTT to deflect damage on asset managers and focus FTT on traders. One person says call it a financial trading tax. Does...

Schaueble's FTT letter is scary. His FTT plan will be another employment act for accountants and IT people. It's going to be a monstrosity to implement and execute and it will also tie up auditors too. The UBS rogue trader story is about banks still struggling with internal controls...

Do you think Schaeuble believes that a FTT will stop speculators and short sellers and the financial markets will recover and the PIIGS debt crisis will abate? He seems to blame the crisis on traders. Doesn't the EU need speculators to gamble on buying these assets, at a discount, when others...

FTT covered 2nd part of this CNBC article below. News today from the EU finance ministers meetings in Poland shows FTT faces a stiff uphill battle. Germans don't want to pay for PIIGS. They would rather banks pay with FTT. When Geithner said the EU and ECB need quick bailout financing, the...

UBS Goes Rogue: What Else Are Bankers Hiding In Their Drawers? http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2011/09/15/ubs-goes-rogue-what-else-are-bankers-hiding-in-their-drawers/ Forbes asked me for some quick comments yesterday.