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July 2001, Dean Baker
This paper shows that any Currency Transactions Taxes (CTT) will be readily evaded by speculators acting in secondary markets, and that trading in secondary markets can easily move the spot market. It argues that to be effective, any CTT will have to be applied to a wide range of financial instruments.