Lord Turner, chairman of the UK's Financial Services Authority, has set the cat among the financial pigeons by making highly critical comments about the City of London and financial intermediation in general. He recommended some drastic remedies, and suggested considering a global tax on financial transactions – a generalised Tobin tax. James Tobin proposed a tax on foreign exchange transactions to stabilise floating exchange rates and achieve greater national monetary policy autonomy in a world of increasing financial integration.
英國金融服務管理局(FSA)主席特納勛爵(Lord Turner)在金融界掀起了軒然大波——他嚴厲批評了倫敦金融城及整個金融中介行業。他建議采取一些有力的補救措施,并建議考慮對全球金融交易課稅——即一種普遍化的托賓稅。詹姆斯?托賓(James Tobin)曾提議對外匯交易征稅,以穩定浮動的匯率,并在一個金融日益一體化的世界里,實現更大的國家貨幣政策自主權。