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Any solution is going to require the imposition of taxes on all financial transactions in order to dampen speculation and put economic incentives back on course to favoring real investment:
Currency Transactions Tax - List of Papers, including the original Tobin Tax proposal
Destabilizing Speculation and the Case for an International Currency Transactions Tax
Why the U.S. economy now depends on asset inflation bubbles - Thomas Palley
More reading on why the financial system is inherently bad
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