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Uphill struggle

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown certainly caused a stir at the G20 finance ministers meeting in St Andrews when he suggested a tax on financial transactions, sometimes called a Tobin tax after the Nobel Prize winning economist James Tobin. Full Article at BBC News

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  1. it is fair to say that we agree that we have to build a system in which taxpayers are not exposed to risk of loss in the future
    Timothy F. Geithner – Timothy F. Geithner SOURCE: 7 Days 2 weeks ago
  2. A day-by-day financial transaction tax is not something we are prepared to support
    Timothy F. Geithner – Timothy F. Geithner SOURCE: Financial Post 3 weeks ago
  3. There have been proposals for an insurance fee to reflect systemic risk or a resolution fund or contingent capital arrangements or a global transactions levy
    Gordon Brown – Gordon Brown SOURCE: Times Online 3 weeks ago
  4. No, that's not something that we're prepared to support.
    Timothy F. Geithner – Timothy F. Geithner SOURCE: EcoEarth News 3 weeks ago
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  4. United States Department of the Treasury United States Department of the Treasury
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