Why bank regulation won’t happen
Unsurprisingly there is a public desire to see big banks broken up and to see tighter regulation of the financial system. The population as a whole is suffering under austerity […]
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Banking Reform
Society needs banks, but is not currently well served by them. They are abusing their economic power: The finance sector continues to increase the wealth of its employees and shareholders […]
» Read moreA European financial-transactions tax
A leading article on Europe’s proposed financial-transactions tax, in this week’s Economist, is eloquent on the problems it would encounter. For example, many financial transactions would simply move elsewhere. The […]
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