Activists Rally for Financial Speculation Tax

From cftclaw.com

Occupy Wall Street is back, and this time their target is high frequency trading. On the second anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, protesters will be gathering in New York City to demand Congress pass the “Robin Hood Tax.” The Robin Hood Tax, also known as the Financial Speculation (or Transactions) Tax, is an excise tax on the transfer of ownership of certain financial instruments, including bonds, stock, derivatives, and foreign currency exchange. With the proposed tax in place, each time a financial product is traded, a small percentage (less than half of one percent) of the value of the trade is ... (full story)