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U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner yesterday turned a cold shoulder to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's call for a global tax on financial transactions by banks. Full Article at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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That is not something that we're prepared to support.
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It really is important that we as finance ministers are engaged in (finding consensus), because if there isn't an agreement on finance ... then the Copenhagen agreement is going to be much, much more difficult.
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That's not something that we're prepared to support.
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I do not in any way underestimate the enormous and difficult practical and technical issues that will need to be overcome that a globally cohesive system requires and raises
