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Archive for February, 2010

More on the Financial Transactions Tax

I highly recommend a very convincing argument for the FTT by Stephan Schulmeister of  the Austrian Institute for Economic Research. His paper   effectively counters the “rational markets” view that high volumes of speculative trading move stock, currency and commodity prices towards equilibrium values based on fundamentals. Instead, such trading moves prices away from fundamentals for [...]

Posted by Andrew Jackson under financial transactions tax.
February 3rd, 2010
Comments: none

No Recovery for the Unemployed

The survey of private sector economists released by the Department of Finance today offers up a pretty bleak forecast that the national unemployment rate will average 8.5% in 2010, up a bit from the 8.3%  average in 2009 and up a bit from 8.4%  last month (December, 2009) .  http://www.fin.gc.ca/n10/data/2010-08_1e.pdf That forecast strikes me as [...]

Posted by Andrew Jackson under economic crisis, unemployment.
February 2nd, 2010
Comments: 6

Financial Transactions Tax

Oxfam are seeking endorsements of this letter by professional economists. If you want to sign on, please notify Sophie Freeman: SFreeman@Oxfam.org.uk Dear G20 As economists from across the world, we call on you to implement a financial transaction tax (FTT). This tax is an idea that has come of age. The financial crisis has shown [...]

Posted by Andrew Jackson under financial transactions tax.
February 2nd, 2010
Comments: 4

HST and Manufacturing

Advocates of the Harmonized Sales Tax often suggest that it will support Ontario’s beleaguered manufacturing sector. They emphasize that the current Provincial Sales Tax applies not only to finished products purchased by consumers, but also to some inputs purchased by businesses. As one business sells components to another, sales tax could be paid repeatedly along [...]

Posted by Erin Weir under HST, manufacturing, Ontario, StatCan, taxation.
February 1st, 2010
Comments: 3

Beyond Stimulus: Fiscal Policy after the Great Recession

The Global Labour University are publishing Global Labour Columns on the general theme of how labour should be responding to the crisis.  The most recent is by yours truly,  re working some pieces previously posted to this blog. The other columns posted are well worth a look. http://column.global-labour-university.org/

Posted by Andrew Jackson under fiscal policy, global crisis.
February 1st, 2010
Comments: none

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