Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Damien Cave writes about the lessons Australia’s successful containment of COVID-19 offer to any other jurisdiction willing to listen and learn rather…
Tobin Tax
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Franklin Foer writes that young climate activists are right to be anxious about the future that’s being imposed on them – and…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Martin Lukacs writes that the world should able to draw plenty of positive examples from Canada’s politics – though not from the corporate-focused…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Tom Parkin writes about the growing opposition to a Lib infrastructure bank designed to turn public needs into private profits at our…
Why A Tax On Financial Transactions Makes Sense
Robert Reich, for whom I have a great deal of respect, offers this succinct explanation:You can read more about this issue, also often referred to as the Tobin tax, here.Recommend…
Why A Tax On Financial Transactions Makes Sense
Robert Reich, for whom I have a great deal of respect, offers this succinct explanation:You can read more about this issue, also often referred to as the Tobin tax, here.Recommend…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Michael Wasser comments on the importance of unions - and the need to ensure that corporate-dominated politics don't stand in the way of…
Thinking Beyond The Conventional
We are regularly told, both by governments and their corporate confederates, that these are tough times, and that only patience and a freer hand for business will bring about eventual…
The ‘Robin-Hood Tax’ Gains Traction
In a declaration that will likely earn him the designation ‘Enemy of the Capitalist State,’ Pope Francis recently called upon the world to redistribute its wealth in order to reduce…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Stephen Beer argues that the UK’s Labour Party should take the lead in arguing for a financial transactions tax oriented toward reducing…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Paul Adams highlights how the Cons and their anti-social allies have spent decades trying to convince Canadians that it’s not worth trying to…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jeffrey Simpson rightly notes that Alberta (like other resource-heavy jurisdictions) should be trying to diversify its revenue sources and economic development instead…
Reflections from Cuba – Civic Responsibility
January 23, 2013: In a previous post, I compared and contrasted Cuba and Canada in terms of the opportunities for achieving one’s potential through access to information, ideas, etc., noting…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Stephen Kimber makes the case for a financial transactions tax in Atlantic Business: (W)hat can supposedly sovereign nations do when individual governments…
France embraces Robin Hood tax
On August 1st, France introduced its long-promised Financial Transactions Tax (FTT). Popularly referred to as a Robin Hood Tax, or Tobin Tax, the 0.2 per cent levy will apply to…
President Hollande of France leads the way with a Tobin tax
At last we see a serious move in Europe to start the much needed process of reining in the many useless financial transactions that are part of the unregulated morass…