Finance
Wrong Tax, Wrong Disease
IPN Opinion article
Officials and activists (and a slightly equivocal Bill Clinton) at the recent world AIDS conference in Vienna want a "Robin Hood" tax on financial transactions to fund HIV/AIDS relief. This well-published analyst explains why this is a bad and counter-productive idea.
Don’t slash spending – re-think it
IPN Opinion article
The strikes in Greece against budget cuts are a warning to all the other governments which have dug themselves into deep debt. But the good news for some - including Obama's new National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform - is that budget reform can be done: Canada did it the mid-'90s.
How Not to Solve a Crisis
Publication date:
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Government attempts to intervene in the financial crisis have been counterproductive
