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Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Janet Yellen has fought for more than a decade to put attacking unemployment and boosting growth on an equal footing with fighting inflation at the heart of the Fed’s policy.
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Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Janet Yellen has fought for more than a decade to put attacking unemployment and boosting growth on an equal footing with fighting inflation at the heart of the Fed’s policy.
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Half a century after a U.S. tax on bond purchases spawned the $3.7 trillion-a-year Eurobond market, Europe’s plan to impose a levy on financial transactions risks triggering a similar flight.
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Adair Turner, the chairman of Britain’s Financial Services Authority, comments on ideas to reform regulation and banking in the wake of the financial crisis.
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What banks do -- sell short-term debt (like deposits) to fund long-term loans -- is inherently risky.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, backed calls by the Occupy London protesters camped outside St. Paul’s Cathedral for the government to consider a global tax on financial transactions.
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For two years, European leaders have sought to tax financial transactions as a two-fer: simultaneously to raise revenue and to tame speculative market behavior. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel emerged from a meeting in Paris today backing the idea.
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The European plan to impose a levy on financial transactions will affect investors and companies trading in the U.S. and may harm market liquidity, William Brodsky of CBOE Holdings Inc., said today.
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Following is the text of remarks made by Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
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India has no plans to impose the so- called Tobin tax on foreign capital inflows, Reserve Bank of India Governor Duvvuri Subbarao said, adding the position may be reviewed in future.
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