{"id":50945,"date":"2009-11-27T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/yes-lets-tax-the-speculators-2009-11"},"modified":"2009-11-27T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T17:37:00","slug":"yes-lets-tax-the-speculators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/50945","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Let&#8217;s Tax The Speculators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4a759365e90806635f2c448e\" border=\"0\" alt=\"cashbag.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Should we use taxes to deter financial speculation? Yes, say top British officials, who oversee the City of London, one of the world&rsquo;s two great banking centers. Other European governments agree &mdash; and they&rsquo;re right.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, United States officials &mdash; especially Timothy Geithner, the Treasury secretary &mdash; are dead set against the proposal. Let&rsquo;s hope they reconsider: a financial transactions tax is an idea whose time has come.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/27\/opinion\/27krugman.html\">Keep reading at the NYT &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/yes-lets-tax-the-speculators-2009-11#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/geithners-disgrace-2009-11\">Geithner&#8217;s Disgrace<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jim-rogers-tim-geithner-has-been-wrong-about-everything-his-entire-career-2009-11\">Jim Rogers: Tim Geithner Has Been Wrong About Everything His Entire Career<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/congressman-proposes-tax-on-all-wall-street-trades-2009-11\">Congressman Proposes Tax On All Wall Street Trades<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should we use taxes to deter financial speculation? Yes, say top British officials, who oversee the City of London, one of the world&rsquo;s two great banking centers. Other European governments agree &mdash; and they&rsquo;re right. Unfortunately, United States officials &mdash; especially Timothy Geithner, the Treasury secretary &mdash; are dead set against the proposal. Let&rsquo;s hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}