Leave a comment

France survives the financial transaction tax - so far

Reblogged from Make Wealth History:

Click to visit the original post

This summer, France went ahead and unilaterally launched a financial transaction tax. Sarkozy started it, with plans for a 0.1% levy on the country's biggest stocks. Hollande doubled it to 0.2%. The reaction from business was predictable.

'Bets grow on impending French stock market slide' said one headline. The Spectator explained how "global investors will just skedaddle to other markets where the fiscal regime is less onerous".

Read more… 677 more words

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

Home Alone in Ireland

Life in emigration Ireland

Another angry woman

Thoughts and rants from another angry woman

IrishEconThoughts

Data-based analysis of the Irish economy

Philip Boucher-Hayes

Journalist, Broadcaster and Author

Dear Kitty. Some blog

On animals, peace and war, science, social justice, women's issues, arts, and much more

Phil Ebersole's Blog

thoughts about politics and the passing scene

Dispatches from the Underclass

AMPLIFYING THE VOICES OF THE VOICELESS

thewhistleblowers

THE EXPOSURE OF PRIVATE BANKING + INTERBANK SCREEN FRAUD, MONEY LAUNDERING + TAX EVASION CONSPIRACY AMONG RBS, ABN AMRO BANK + PB TRADING SA / ROSABRANCA INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION. BIG STORY WAS LIBOR SCANDAL IN 2012 + WILL BE THE GRAY SCREEN SCANDAL IN 2013! LOST MONEY OR HAVE EVIDENCE, CONTACT US: skype: damarrealestate, skype: anthony_eurolink

LeakSource

#1 Source for Leaks Around the World!

ANIMAL POST

A Voice for Animals in Peril

the void

narking off the state since 2005

Come here to me!

Dublin life & culture.

the irish revolution

Historical and contemporary analysis of the Irish revolution from a socialist-republican perspective

The Irish Republic

Approaching the centenary of the Irish Revolution of Easter 1916 this site will promote re-engagement with the principles enshrined in the Proclamation of the Irish Republic.

MediaBite Blog

a shot at bias in the media

Happy Simply – lifestyle model & education project

Happy, healthy and with lots of friends

NAMA Wine Lake

Click the green link above for latest news and over 2,600 related articles. NAMA - National Asset Management Agency - part of Ireland's response to its banking crisis and property bubble

Irish Oil and Gas

Information and analysis about Ireland's natural resources

Futile Democracy

Political and Philosophical ramblings of a 20 something English leftie.

The Charnel-House

From Bauhaus to Beinhaus

It Only Encourages Them

A sideways view of Irish politics , current affairs and the world around me.

feimineach.com

[she reads a lot of web and passes a lot of remarks, so she does]

It's a Political World

Group Blog of Politicalworld.org

Seamus Sheridan

Thoughts on food agriculture politics and cheese

Awaken Longford

"If all the Nations of the World are in Debt! Where did all the Money go? Educating Irish Citizens in their Rights!

Class War In America

The politics of socioeconomic class

@Darren606

"The future lay sparkling ahead and we thought that we would know each other forever."

Audio For A Revolution

Revolution Out Loud

a better world is probable

"Or does it explode?"

the Soil and the Worker

This blog explores the intersections of labor and ecology, economic and environmental exploitation, and the potentials for a red-green social movement and politics both domestically and transnationally.

Kapitalism101

about capitalism, exploitation and crisis

Insurrect - Word's of a contrarian

Reflections by Oliver Dodd

Michael Roberts Blog

blogging from a marxist economist

Kevin Doyle Blog

Blog of short story writer and political activist, Kevin Doyle

Colonel Despard's Radical Comment

State and society in the era of globalization

Shiraz Socialist

Because there have to be some lefties with a social life

Unlearning Economics

Musings on the Current State of Economics

Dandelion Salad

World News and Videos

Robert Nielsen

Economics, Politics and Religion

Sráid Marx

An Irish Marxist Blog

DJ Academe

Teaching sociology with videos

Challenging the "status quo"

toolwielder

Not !!!Just another WordPress.com site

Climate Change in the Media

This WordPress.com site is the bee's knees

anagnori

slow knowledge

The Ragged Wagon

Just another WordPress.com weblog

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 764 other followers

%d bloggers like this: