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There is no need for a long-term stock exchange. If you want to encourage long-term investing, "all you need to do" is change investment taxation. Equities he
by creeble 6y ago
There is no need for a long-term stock exchange.
If you want to encourage long-term investing, "all you need to do" is change investment taxation.
Equities held for less than a minute? 100% tax. A year? 20%, like the US today. Five or ten years? Zero.
Boom, HFT gone, and a sudden rise in long-term investing.
But the devil's in the details, in this case the length and shape of the curve.
- mlrtime 6y agoThis would discourage market makers form entering the market, increasing spreads and investors would pay more to execute.