G20-meeting: Tobin tax steals headlines |
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With G20 countries on a time schedule for coordinating and reviewing individual countries’ economic policies, the process already revealed some weakness as G20 was not able to agree on more specific policy goals. UK Prime Minister’s proposal to tax financial transactions is dead on arrival. However, a special tax on financial institutions to finance future bailouts remains on the agenda. Exchange rates issues were avoided in the final communiqué. However, IMF believes CNY is significantly
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