any of you remember the so-called Tobin Tax, a proposal for almost 40 years old made by the Nobel prize for economics James Tobin: taxing all financial transactions at a rate not exceeding 1%. In normal times, a simple proposal for common sense. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has proposed the establishment of an instrument very similar to the Tobin Tax in the G-20 which was just held in his Scotland (the news is taken from newspapers). A U-turn over the recent past Brown and the positions he held in the recent past by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Like all governments in difficulty, the purpose of elections is to undermine the new enemy of all public opinion, the banks.
His words were like those Obama uses populist when it comes to finance and financial, but the difference is in the facts: Brown, with the water in the throat, pushes to bring the Tobin Tax, the Obama Administration (and Tremonti) are opposed. Now touch the IMF study the feasibility of the proposal, but no Geithner has already put a mortgage on this hypothesis, which at this point takes on a whole and all British elections. The problem is American, from where it will begin to resist lobbying by Wall Street, "the president? Where he wants to tax? And how? The discussion of this point will be lunga e complessa quanto quella sulla riforma sanitaria.
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