1. CBO Letter on FTT: When There's No Smoke, There's No Fire
(Matching tags: FST, tax)

Late last year, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) responded to an inquiry from Senator Orrin Hatch about the potential impact of a financial transaction tax (FTT) of three one-hundredths of a percent ...

2. The Impact of a Financial Speculation Tax on GDP: Problems with the European Commission Model
(Matching tags: FST, europe)

While interest in a financial speculation tax, also known as a financial transaction tax (FTT), is picking up in the United States, the European Union is getting close to actually approving a tax. As part ...

3. Quick Thoughts on the Obama Administration's Opposition to a Financial Speculation Tax
(Matching tags: FST, Wall Street, OccupyWallSt)

The Obama administration has staked out grounds in opposition to the financial speculation tax is being considered by the European Union and was recently proposed in Congress by Senator Tom Harkin and ...

4. CEPR News October 2011
(Matching tags: FST, Wall Street, inequality, OccupyWallSt, Argentina, Haiti)

... a Financial Transaction Tax, or FTT (also referred to as the financial speculation tax or FST). CEPR continued to arm allies in the fight for the FTT in October, updating its paper titled "The Facts and ...

5. Ken Rogoff Misses the Boat on Financial Speculation Taxes
(Matching tags: FST, Wall Street)

... dangerous economic imbalances. However, his column criticizing financial speculation taxes (FST) is more on a par with the work of his hopelessly lost colleagues. The column argues that an FST of the ...