Right, raising 100 bln a year by collecting $50 taxes from people who hold stocks for 5-10 years.
The tax revenues from the financial markets will plunge instead.
Why not for pairtradefinder to provide the performance record of their system instead of referring to somebody's else results. It would have more meaning to the potential users of their service.
The interest rate to borrow stocks like ebay and goog for shorting them jumped 1% overnight at IB from almost 0% to more than 1%. Does anyone have a possible explanation of why it happened?