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Germany, France Repeat Tobin Tax Threat
Two weeks ago when expanding its debt monetizing vehicle, the SMP, to include the debt of Spain and Italy, one of the few appeasements offered to the public by "Europe" was the resolute demand that a transaction tax, aka Tobin, be enacted immediately if not sooner. Today, about two weeks later, the same behemoths of European structural stability, Germany and France, hoping the general public has largely forgotten all that was said in mid-August, has come out with the generous announcement that... they will propose a financial transaction tax. It is unclear if sometime between the first proposal and today's, Merkozy dropped the demand for Tobin Taxation, in order for it to be priced in once again as an indication of the fiscal prudence of the European leaders. And if so, will the market respond like it did last time around and plunge by 5-10%?
From Bloomberg:
France and Germany in September will propose a tax on financial transactions to raise money for development projects, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in Paris. “It’s normal to pay a tax when you buy a material good,” Sarkozy told ambassadors in Paris. “Why should financial transactions be the only transactions exempt?”
He said he wanted other European Union members to join the French-German proposal “so that we can get other countries to rally to it” at a G20 summit in Cannes, France in early November.
We can't wait until the next time European leaders propose a... transaction tax... again, and again, and again roughly every 2 weeks or so (after all between vacuum tubes and humans, the blended average duration of memory is about a few minutes) which will somehow pay for the tens, nay hundreds, of billions of PIIGS debt that is being purchased on a monthly basis.
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The EU song:
Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye - YouTubeor... a song by Tobin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R80FZecxhp0
or good old Bonny M.
hurrey, hurrey it,s a holi, holiday
hurrey, hurrey it,s a bank holiday
Of course, compliments of Greenscam & The Bananas&BubblesBernank, here's the U.S. song:
Pusherman - YouTubeThe transaction tax has been publicly debated in Germany for the last two years. The European method of raising state revenues has always been taxation. Anyone thinking this will affect HFT trading does not know enough about the off-shore HFT shadow market.
THis tax was a complete failure in the 80s in Sweden to finally be abandoned in 90.
"Complete" must be an exaggeration. Surely it yielded significant tax income?
What did it fail to do--decrease marginal trading volume? Or was it just a victim of changing public discussion/politics/economic power concentration . . . under confoundingly changing economic conditions over that period?
Or something I haven't even guessed?
S'il vous plait, destiny!
If at first you don't succeed, try try again. Or, is that the definition of insanity?
Markets now only running by carrots dangling from sticks like Bubbles Bernank's QE3 'really, its coming....3rd times a charm' nonsense, to various Eurozone threats and appeasements tax-no tax, austerity-no austerity....bunch of BS someone stop this stupid ride I want to get off now.
And no mention on the BlowHorn [CNBC] about this renewed tax effort [which spooked the market last time it came up.] Shocker!
Miyagi: "Show me tax-on, tax-off..."
Miyagi: "Show me austerity-on, austerity-off..."
A Tobin tax is a good idea. It puts a cost on HFT. It raises revenue which is badly needed. Q.E.D.
Flashbacks often occur when the Matrix makes changes to the reality.
HAVEN'T YOU GUYS SEEN THE MOVIE?!
Can they just tax the HFT computer transactions? This would include 'fake' bids/asks that never result in a trade itself... so as to cause a totally false market meltup. If they can only tax the HFT computers that would add 'liquidity' to the tax system.
Sure they can... they just better have the speech prepared to granny that everything in the 401k had actually been held up by vacuum tubes, shenanigans, and hopium and will now be reset to pennies on the dollar, its real value. But apparently, this is a speech they're not willing to make, even if it means sacrificing all credibility and moral underpinning (what little was left anyway) of the system.
If there is copious quote stuffing but zero consummation has a transaction actually occurred?
coitus interruptus bitchez
if a bear shits in the woods does the nyse notice?
To curb HFT a "quote fee" should be introduced. That will remove the most perverse HFT strategies
What if the transaction is rolled back?
with busted trades you will likely get a two-fer
A transaction is a complete business event which is "cleared" and later settled within 3 days.
A "quote-fee" will be a cost per quote regardless of any transaction. This will remove the 10 000s of offers and bids that occur in milliseconds.
What value does quote stuffing do for anyone in the market?
When they cheered visibility years ago, now they cheer the "benefit" HFT and fake quotes.
Picture of Toben threatening Germany, Italy, and France.
THe market is unreal. Never in my lifetime have I seen such willingness on so many to put billions, trillions, to work under the perception that the government is going to buy shares. They just don't care anymore. No one is rational at all.
Other people's money...
Why would anyone want to step in front of $1+ trillion new dollars flooding the market? Obama could announce some stimulus on Sept 7, and Bernank could on Sept 21st. Bears aren't big enough to fight that kind of money, so they sit out just like the last few years.
Bears and Bulls don't matter at this point. I'm talking about the general public. Even the most ignorant now see in public that this economy is not real. Why is EVERYONE not selling at this point. Real tangible assets are the only escape route. Equity? THere is no more equity. How do you value anything. That's really it. If my retirement was held hostige by this, I would be trying to eject FAST.
401k money is locked up until retirement. The options are buy stocks or buy bonds. Absent a tangible asset option in the 401k, why would someone sell stocks to buy bonds yielding 2%? Or park it all in cash yielding 0%?
Cash is not a bad option. In the event of a collateral collapse, the subsequent derivative collapse will make the stock drop look like a summer pool party. Cash could be king again. That has a higher probability then missing out on some sort of repatriation of dollars.
Cash is a hard sell to those wanting to make enough money to retire.
That's the problme. Folks that are "in" because of that idea have no idea of the risks they are taking. They think SNP is just market. No idea of event
Take the damned tax/penalty haircut, park it in metals and you WILL be at par in 6 months when it's all said and done.
This market, all this paper is a fucking SCAM at this point. And it's becoming more obvious by the week.
I love this thought. Problem with it though is that unless you are no longer part of the company, you are not allowed to "cash in." At least that is the case for two people I know
I still hold on to my humble opinion that nothing will stop these fraudster but violence! Politics, diplomacy, etc, forget it! They need to feel before they hear or even take notice! Where do you hurt a politician the most...fear to lose his "job", where do you hurt a speculator/fraudster the most...fear to lose his/her loot..ergo...?!?!?
well then start by committing violence against yourself. cash out and burn all your dollars! you know, the FBI pays people to be agent provocateurs -- why do it for free?
you have a perception problem, broseph. politics is violence. adding fuel to the fire doesn't put it out.
Put a tax on bidding instead. So all these bastards at JPMorgan-GS-FED won't be able to manipulate the markets.
I'm assuming you have never met a politician. The TBTF will be exempt! They may not be officially exempt, but the regulators and the legal system will look the other way. You, on the other hand, will pay and pay big.
a Tobin Tax is what the world needs, but it won't work unless America and England are on board (which is very unlikely).
Is there some reason that you need to pay higher transactions costs to trade?
I mean, if you really feel strongly about this, I can provide you with a giant spread now, before government springs into action to make your life more expensive for you.
No plunge! They will simultaneously announce a money printing operation that will make Gideon Gono's seem like child's play.
taxes are always a terrible idea. the outcome is this: they'll collect a little more revenue and suddenly discover that they're only spending it in one way: the interest payment on the national debt. they're the government and they've decided that they're unimpeachable, so, the only thing to do with X dollars is to lever it up to k*X dollars. period.
now that they've made themselves dependent on financial transactions for revenue, they'll introduce price controls or some other market-devastating bullshit program and ruin their own goddamn tax base -- just like they do to income tax with minimum wage and labor laws, and so on down the line.
an act like this will drive markets fucking berserk.
they'll keep talking about it at meetings not because they're proposing to do it, but because they're daring the greeks or some other fucking sucker nation to do it first. not one eurozone gov even knows where to begin. when a group of people get together and fuck each other, it stands to reason that they have all collectively gotten fucked.
Hurrah. The U.S. badly needs a financial transaction tax. To be equitable, all services should be taxed just like product sales.
Wall Street caused the derivatives fraud economic implosion...
Wall Street Should Pay...
1% tax on all derivatives and HFT to be used solely to pay off the National debt... No corporate ho' welfare queens or TBTF banksters need apply for any funds...
They should have an 'order placement' tax for the US and they would solve the debt problem in one nanosecond!
Corrected: "We own the body you inhabit and the breath you draw, so why should financial transactions be exempt?" ~ Nicolas Sarkozy
The Tobin Tax, in the last two or three decades, has referred to a tax on FX transactions. Note here, they just referr to a transaction tax. So, possibly, much broader than just FX.
show me the HFTTT high-frequency financial transaction tax, bitchez....
lol all the way to the deutsche Bank ;)
Not sure what shit the Stasi bint and dwarf frog were smoking when they thought this one up but I sure as hell wouldn't mind a hit or two. Fucking delusional the pair of them.
Something like 60% of EU financial transactions are done in London. Ergo UK-based companies will get hammered disproportionately. And all to raise readies for a (soon to be) redundant currency and an institution that hasn't been able to balance it's books (or open them up to outside scrutiny) since inception (the EU government).
No fucking way on God's green earth will Cameron and Osborne agree to it. To do so would see substantial tax revenue from the city exiting stage left for the US, Switzerland and the Far East.
meanwhile, back home in the troubled US economy...
Millions of Distressed Properties Stuck in 'Shaky' U.S. Housing Market
Yes. We have somewhere in the neighborhood of four million distressed properties out there. Those are either seriously delinquent mortgages or ones already in the foreclosure process.
What's more, the survey of 20 cities found overall home prices have actually fallen over the last 12 months.
And home sales for this year are on track to be the worst in 14 years. And things could get worse yet, once banks pick up the pace on millions of foreclosures, as expected.
They have been delayed by a government investigation into mortgage lending practices.
And most of those loans have to be pushed through the system at some point.
And the longer we take to get through that, the longer the housing market is going to take to recover.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec11/housing_08-30.html
"Not sure what shit the Stasi bint and dwarf frog were smoking when they thought this one up but I sure as hell wouldn't mind a hit or two. Fucking delusional the pair of them."
Quite the contrary : these two are struggling to be re-elected so they need to :
- let people believe they have ideas (tough challenge)
- let people believe they actually have a grip on things (an even tougher challenge). Charging poor people for the crisis created by rich bastards is in fact the only option they have.
Merkozy? If I'm not mistaken...
Shark-ozy + (M)Urkel = Sharkel
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