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...The show lacks the stellar artists emerging in the period — no Paula Rego, no Cornelia Parker. It is really about women’s activism: a duller, harder subject....
...The Labour leader’s support for a financial transactions tax — or Tobin tax — will concern the City....
...However, the chancellor will insist he was right to challenge the principle of the Tobin tax at the outset, on the grounds that it will ensure he has a legal right to launch another challenge at a later...
...A defeat in the case of the FTT – sometimes referred to as a “Tobin” or “Robin Hood” tax – would be a setback for George Osborne, the chancellor, although the Treasury insisted it had not seen the final...
...The same is true of “Tobin’s q”, which compares share prices with the total replacement value of corporate assets....
...(Bloomberg)(BoJ Statement) US Treasury, banks, businesses criticise EU Tobin tax plans: A financial transaction tax to be proposed today by the European Commission would raise €30bn – €35bn a year for the...
...Doug Parker, US Airways’ chief executive, looks set to be appointed chief executive of the newly merged company, while Tom Horton, AMR’s chief executive, will stay on temporarily as non-executive chairman...
...Behind the scenes, this “Northern Alliance” will also debate ways to frustrate a “French model” for the European economy; most of the nine leaders are opposed to stricter regulation and new taxes, notably a Tobin...
...Mr Cameron claims that the City is under “constant attack” from Brussels and has vowed that Britain will have no part in a Tobin tax....
...Ms Merkel has said that the eurozone should push ahead with the so-called Tobin tax if Britain continued to block the measure – raising funds from the financial sector to help cash-strapped governments –...
...Dr Williams’s most controversial call is for a “robust public discussion” on the way financial services are taxed, including the case for a financial transactions tax – sometimes called a Tobin tax or Robin...
...By George Parker and Brooke Masters David Cameron has poured cold water on proposals – backed by the Archbishop of Canterbury – for a “Robin Hood tax” to be levied on financial transactions, claiming that...
...George Osborne, chancellor of the exchequer, was particularly scathing on Monday over plans – supported by France, Germany and the European Commission – for a so-called Tobin tax on financial transactions...
...In what are expected to be tense talks in Berlin, Mr Cameron will restate his opposition to a FrancoGerman proposal for a so-called Tobin tax on financial transactions, which he believes is just one of...
...The prime minister believes some other European leaders use the subject of a so-called Tobin tax as a means of diverting attention from other policy issues....
...Plans for a Tobin tax are just one manifestation of this; for a detailed overview of the growing tensions it’s worth reading this masterful feature by former FT Westminster journalist Alex Barker....
...David Richards and Lady Caroline Richards Sir Stuart Rose and Kate Reardon Lord Jonathan Rothermere and Lady Rothermere Peter Sands and Betsy Tobin Grant Shapps MP and Belinda Shapps Sir Martin Sorrell...
...Mr Tobin said UK Uncut’s objective, through its protests, was to persuade the government to take a more aggressive stance on tax avoidance....
...France and Germany prefer an alternative transactions or Tobin tax....
...European support for the Tobin tax, named after the late US economist James Tobin, has grown since the world’s financial system plunged into crisis 15 months ago, forcing governments in the US and Europe...
...Mr Darling have been promoting the idea of a global bank levy since last year’s G7 finance ministers’ meeting in St Andrews, although the prime minister has been forced to admit his preferred option, a “Tobin...
...European support for the Tobin tax, named after James Tobin, the late US economist, has grown since the world’s financial system plunged into crisis 15 months ago, forcing governments in the US and Europe...
...Mr Osborne said that he was attracted to the Swedish idea of an insurance levy rather than a Tobin tax....
...Last year, Mr Brown mooted a tax on bank transactions – a so-called Tobin tax – as one of a number of options to make sure the “contribution banks make to society is properly captured”....
...Mr Brown’s initial preference was for a tax on financial transactions, or Tobin tax, although that was rejected immediately by Tim Geithner, the US Treasury secretary....
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