out of the gate

　
http://poppavox.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html
　
Saturday, October 20, 2007
　
Feeding The Worlds Hungry
"Current global agriculture subsides run at close to $400b/year"
"If a 10th of 1% of the global economy were diverted to buy food prices for global producers would strengthen to the point where subsidies would no longer be necessary. Most global transactions pass through an institution. Each institution retains and diverts .1% of every transaction"
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Feb. 06, 2010
G-7
　
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/a-tobin-tax-the-outr-is-back-in/article1458027/
　
　
　
Tobin tax
　
as a number of people have noted, it would raise enough money to lift the world's billion poorest people out of absolute poverty