Transaction tax figures start to add up for Gordon Brown

Reported by guardian.co.uk on Sunday, 8 November 2009 (on November 8, 2009)

Levying a "transaction tax" on the frenzied activities of City traders and their rivals in the world's financial markets is not a new idea, but it may be one whose time has come.American economist..

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