As the Center reported that month, (1) a major IMF-led study commissioned by the G-7 nations at last year's Houston economic summit revealed that the Soviet Union was a basket-case economically and would remain so in the absence of wholesale structural reforms.
Even though ex-UK PM Gordon Brown (Labor) first pushed for an FTT in the EU and G-20 a few years back, a new Tory-PM Cameron-led UK is dead set against FTT and bashing banks and traders.
Whether or not Newt Gingrich is re-elected as Speaker, the movement he led is turning toward the sensitive center, borrowing from Clinton's family-friendly campaign playbook to prove that a G.