Thursday, August 27, 2009

What a difference eight years makes!

The Guardian, 27-Aug-09:
Charities applaud FSA's support for new bank tax
'Banks should be asked to bail out the tens of millions of poor people pushed into poverty by a crisis they did nothing to cause,' said Max Lawson, a senior policy adviser at Oxfam (src)
Larry Elliott, Guardian economics editor:
The time is ripe for a Tobin tax
James Tobin's transaction tax brainchild has become a possibility thanks to economic crisis (src)
The Guardian, 30-Aug-2001 (nearly eight years exactly!):
Jospin in fantasy land over Tobin tax
Silly distraction is unenforceable (src)
The last goes against the newspaper's editorial stance; therefore, by the criterion of embarrassment, it is more likely to be a piece of original journalism.

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