According to those good people at Bloomberg, German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized governments including President Barack Obama’s administration for refusing to make the financial sector pay for the global financial crisis, and vowed to push for a financial transaction tax until it applies at least in Europe.
“It’s not acceptable that especially those outside the euro region, who are time and again pushing us to take broad- based action to manage the debt crisis, are at the same time flatly refusing to impose a financial transactions tax,” Merkel said at a labor union congress in the city of Karlsruhe yesterday. “I think this is not okay. We want, and we have to make, financial market participants contribute to the costs of crisis management.”
Merkel said she will continue to push for a levy because “reasonable regulation” is needed for economic confidence to return. Trust in the reliability and competence of many financial market participants has been damaged, she said. Her comments were published by the government press office….
Read more at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-15/merkel-says-won-t-accept-u-s-balking-at-finance-transaction-tax.html
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