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A Way To Share
Bernard Kouchner, the French minister for Foreign and European affairs, has proposed to tax certain financial transactions to raise money to better help African countries. It’s a modest sum, something like 5 euros for a 1000 euros transaction, or 0.005%, but according to him it could generate $44 billion and would go a long way…
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Money v. Goodwill
Sometimes the foreign press is a better source of information for certain type of news about the US. Reading Germany’s Der Spiegel I learned that the US senate had passed a bill—not yet the whole Congress, please note—mandating a $10 entry fee for each person coming to the US from a country where a visa…
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The Need For Transparency
The Swiss government is considering amending its laws allowing assisted suicide. One of its clinics, Dignitas has been much in the news for allowing non Swiss citizens to come to Switzerland, pay their money (about $6000) and end their life. They apparently have no permanent space and rent apartments when they need them. In one…
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