{"id":190314,"date":"2009-12-10T23:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T04:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/10\/france-looks-to-match-uk-bank-bonus-tax\/"},"modified":"2009-12-10T23:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T04:53:00","slug":"france-looks-to-match-uk-bank-bonus-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/10\/france-looks-to-match-uk-bank-bonus-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"France Looks to Match UK Bank Bonus Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB126044560505585235.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE5B941R20091210\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So it appears that the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and 3<sup>rd<\/sup> largest economies in Europe agree <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=alistair+darling\">Alistair Darling&#8217;s bonus tax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If they can get Germany in on this, and that is a big if with Angela Merkel&#8217;s CDU in power there, there may very be a critical mass established that will force the US, and in particular Timothy &#8220;Eddie Haskell&#8221; Geithner, kicking and screaming into some sort of agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See here and here. So it appears that the 2nd and 3rd largest economies in Europe agree Alistair Darling&#8217;s bonus tax. If they can get Germany in on this, and that is a big if with Angela Merkel&#8217;s CDU in power there, there may very be a critical mass established that will force the US, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,984,1004,985,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-europe","category-finance","category-regulation","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}