As the debate regarding a financial transaction tax heats up, Public Citizen has released a white paper that calculates the cost of such a tax to average investors to be “microscopic.” Recent talk about a financial transaction tax has increased, but the seriousness of that talk is in question. In his most recent budget President Obama included a transaction tax proposal to fund the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, at the urging of outgoing CFTC commissioner Bart Chilton. Financial transaction tax: Recurring costs The Public Citizen report notes that If an investor allocated the average 401K investment amount, $85,000, towards…
Financial Transaction Tax Debate Heats Up
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.
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