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05-29-2009, 05:53 AM
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Lagarde Dismisses Kouchner Idea for Financial-Transaction Tax (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/3-0&fd=R&url=http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news%3Fpid%3D20601085%26sid%3Da2kHMOK_mzdk%26refer%3Deurope&cid=0&ei=JrMfSvWtDYm2NbTAiI0D&usg=AFQjCNE3QMQsQxUleoXlH7b639_4aji6lQ)
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“Given the amount of transactions on the currency market every day, it&#39;s physically impossible,” said Laurence Boone, chief French economist at Barclays Capital in Paris. “If you try to impose something on the UK and the US it will never work.”


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