Re:Thomas Piketty: 'The Draghi report is a step in the right...
by rickydroll on Monday September 16, 2024 @09:20AM
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Like most financial engineering. Put a tax on every transaction
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Re:Thomas Piketty: 'The Draghi report is a step in the right...
by ETH_start on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @04:47AM
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This reduces economic coordination, which makes the economy less productive.
Re:Thomas Piketty: 'The Draghi report is a step in the right...
by rickydroll on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @03:35PM
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Reduces economic coordination? Do you mean collusion? Price-fixing?
Yes, there are advantages and disadvantages to financial transaction taxes. I like them because they are progressive and reduce the profitability of share flipping. In theory, they would also reduce high-frequency trading, which seems like it's casino adjacent.
Re:Thomas Piketty: 'The Draghi report is a step in the right...
by ETH_start on Friday September 20, 2024 @09:06AM
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Transactions are not needed for collusion or price-fixing. Those happen through regular communication channels. Economic coordination happens through price signals and commercial exchange. The more friction is attached to commercial exchange, the less people trade, and the fewer opportunities to coordinate for the benefit of all involved parties can be exploited.
In other words, taxing transactions reduces division of labor, which is one of the main sources of productivity: