Brown calls for global tax on banks

Reported by FT.com on Saturday, 7 November 2009 (on November 7, 2009)

World governments should consider urgently a levy on banks to fund future bailouts, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said, departing from London’s longstanding resistance to a global tax

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