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...transnational repression in the Uyghur diaspora is universal, and its impact severely restricts their rights to free speech and associations, and the capacity to maintain their culture,” wrote report authors David Tobin...
...Holland joins from Baker McKenzie and Bogle from Gilbert + Tobin, The American Lawyer reports....
...“In Europe, we don’t manage our own pensions, as US investors do via their [defined contribution] 401k plans,” says Jean-René Giraud, chief executive of TrackInsight, an ETF selection platform....
...The Tobin, or Robin Hood tax, is an idea whose time has come....
..., Jean Louis Arcand, Enrico Berkes and I provide empirical support for the idea that “too much” private credit can reduce economic growth....
...But Jean Leonetti, the European affairs minister, said on Wednesday that the government wanted the tax in place before the end of this year....
...Jean-Claude Trichet on Thursday urged European Union policymakers to ditch plans for a financial transaction tax, warning that the bloc’s financial centres would lose out unless the scheme was adopted globally...
...Mr Osborne said that he was attracted to the Swedish idea of an insurance levy rather than a Tobin tax....
...Downing Street and the Treasury were at the time dismissive of Lord Tobin’s suggestion the City had become “swollen” and “socially useless” in parts and a Tobin tax should be considered....
...The rapid rejection of a “Tobin tax” by the US, Canada and others dominated the Sunday headlines, portraying the prime minister as isolated, rather than world-leading....
...Dominique Strauss-Kahn, IMF head, repeated his long-held position that a Tobin tax is “a very old idea that is not really possible today”....
...Jean-Marc Anga, chief economist at the ICCO, says: “At the moment, we are heading towards a balanced market or even a small deficit in 2009-10.”...
...It is just that he has other ideas how to achieve those aims and does not want the water muddied by another chapter of a global financial transaction levy – or Tobin tax as it is often termed....
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