Yes, the simplest solution is a 0.1 % tax on short-term trades. It's actually pretty strange that practically everything else one buys is taxed by the governmen

Yes, the simplest solution is a 0.1 % tax on short-term trades. It's actually pretty strange that practically everything else one buys is taxed by the government but not shares. No surprise that we get all this useless and dangerous high frequency trading, and an obscenely large financial sector.