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Below is an educated backgrounder of individual G-20 agendas (thus far no real support for Megaphone Merkel). IMO the billion dollar G-20 roadshow has turned itself into a beached whale. Their competing internal interests mean they can never agree on anything. Their only remaining...

Earth Times 'Berlin - Shortly before the G20 summit in Canada, Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted she had been unable to persuade the other leading economies to support a transaction tax worldwide. "I don't think we will all come a single view," she said in Berlin before her departure...

If Dow Jones Newswire report below quoting US treasury official's Friday update is correct, their position remains unchanged:- http://english.capital.gr/news.asp?id=994483 You can count on angered resistance from G20 "small players" made aware of that demeaning, insulting remark by...

http://www.expatica.com/de/news/german-news/france-and-germany-to-float-a-financial-transactions-tax_76721.html

Merkel's spokespersons' clumsy verbal attempts at G20 membership manipulation will backfire. There will be an embarrassed backflip. Europe is NOT the centre of the universe. The March 2008 report below focuses on negative transactions tax experiences within the S.E. Asia sleeping giant...

Barroso knows that the other end of the world doesn't want anything to do with a transactions tax, and some won't agree to punitive taxes on their banking sectors. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wirestory?id=10807846&page=1 Please continue posting, thank you Mr Green. Thanks to...

If you scroll down to Items 10 and 11 of Lipsky's recent speech to Asian audience, it's clear there's no divergence from the IMF's strongly expressed April 2010 aversion to any transactions tax. In fact there's emerging acceptance that non-affected nations will not wish to be overly-burdened...

Yesterday: (Cameron/Merkel meeting) The Conservative premier said he backed a "strong and stable" eurozone, although Britain is not a member, but stressed his centre-right government had agreed it would never cede any new powers to the European Union. "They also openly clashed on issues...

Nonsensical union prattle (translated):- http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,695411,00.html&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&usg=ALkJrhj-VABb4UoNIK0-jvUdAAsrqL38nw Here's my bet:- The rest of...

The IMF's post-April blog provides an opportunity to present to their decision-makers carefully constructed logic and support for their April report and its aspersions cast on the viability of a global tt. Comments await moderation for a few days, but they do reach IMF administrators. (The...

Tell them their finance ministers are seriously exposing their population to jobs-ending off-shoring http://www.thelocal.de/article.php?ID=27233#comment2020936

The portent for Europe/UK's investment future:- http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64G31W20100517

24 pages mandatory reading (form your own astute conclusions - note top Page 18):- http://www.libdems.org.uk/siteFiles/resources/PDF/98%20-%20International%20Development.pdf#search=%22transactions%22

The Finance Ministers' audacity has no bounds. Does anyone really think that non-failed nations unaffected by governmental profligacy and bad management will follow orders of a failing European Union? Fiscally stable governments will not reorganise their internal affairs just to prop up...

Australian Government's Henry Tax Review (Final Report) May 2, 2010, officially rejects any form of Tobin tax:- Box D4-1: A Tobin Tax? http://taxreview.treasury.gov.au/content/FinalReport.aspx?doc=html/Publications/Papers/Final_Report_Part_2/chapter_d4-2.htm#Box_D4_1 :D

http://blog-imfdirect.imf.org/2010/04/25/fair-and-substantial%E2%80%94taxing-the-financial-sector/

what is this Baker person talking about? Bottom line...paranoia http://www.politico.com/arena/archive/open-mike-april-24-25.html#E72EB3C1-AAEB-49F6-8F1A-ADC37EFE7E3B

G20 communique:- http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2319500120100423?type=marketsNews

Interim IMF Report for G20 Ministers April 2010: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/2010_04_20_imf_g20_interim_report.pdf

"why is this subject still talked about? the fed. whitehouse and imf said no no no. no country will ever singularly impose this as it will put them at a huge disadvantage to other countries". comment No. 11, Page 2: http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-mon...al-transactions