Tobin tax

Prospect’s 10 most influential articles

David Goodhart
/ November 23, 2010 / Leave a comment

This blog accompanies David Goodhart’s review of Prospect’s first 15 years—click here to read that piece Influence and public noise is not everything, but every political publication wants to feel that it is shaping the argument. These are the ten pieces that have done so most powerfully for Prospect: 1....
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Why Osborne can’t support hedge fund restrictions

Tom Streithorst
/ May 14, 2010 / 6 Comments

The new British government is kicking and screaming because next week the EU expects to adopt stringent regulations on hedge funds. Funds that comply will get a “passport” and be allowed to trade within the EU. Others, whether based in Europe or offshore, will be locked out of the continent....
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/ February 24, 2010 / Leave a comment

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Number cruncher

Stephen Nickell
/ January 27, 2010 / 1 Comment

Who will pay the Tobin tax?
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Sarkozy turns to Turner and Tobin

Brian Semple
/ September 22, 2009 / 1 Comment

It appears that Nicolas Sarkozy has taken a leaf out of Prospect‘s book. Following last month’s interview with FSA chief Adair Turner, in which he described the City as “socially useless” and called for the introduction of a Tobin tax, there are now reports that Nicolas Sarkozy will urge fellow...
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Don’t cry for me, Wall Street

Tom Streithorst
/ September 3, 2009 / 2 Comments

The outcry at proposals recently floated by FSA chief Lord Turner in Prospect suggests that the City knows they would be effective. The City does not fear “regulation”; regulations can always be circumvented. But a Tobin tax, an infinitesimal levy on all financial transactions, would squash the profitability of much...
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Salvation or suicide? Experts react to a Tobin tax

Elizabeth Kirkwood
/ September 2, 2009 / Leave a comment

Following headlines over the past week about FSA chief Adair Turner’s comments in Prospect magazine on the “swollen” financial sector and his calls for a Tobin tax, we’ve gathered a diverse selection of opinions from industry experts and commentators to argue about Turner’s ideas. Robert Kuttner, editor of the American...
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Adair Turner: a useful public intellectual

David Goodhart
/ September 2, 2009 / Leave a comment

Adair Turner has done public debate (and Prospect magazine) a big favour by spelling out carefully and coherently what many people have long felt intuitively about the British financial system. He may not be correct in everything he said (although he has been most commonly attacked for something he didn’t...
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Big banks should be broken up, not taxed

George Magnus
/ September 2, 2009 / 1 Comment

A Tobin tax would only work by destroying financial activity. The government must instead break up large banks and regulate them better
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Tobin tax is national economic suicide

Tim Congdon
/ September 2, 2009 / 2 Comments

Adair Turner's suggestion that the financial services industry has become too big is ludicrous. How can any export industry be too large for the country that hosts it?
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Adair Turner: a useful public intellectual

Big banks should be broken up, not taxed

Tobin tax is national economic suicide

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