The Cyprus Contagion Spreads
June 29, 2013 9 Comments
At the time of the banking crisis in Cyprus I wrote about the risk of governments falling in love with the deal they had hammered out then and making it general policy in other countries.And how this can spell disaster to savers.Link
My worst fears stand confirmed.Remember governments tend to copy each other.Here is a news article I found buried in the back pages of the Economic Times yesterday:
EU strikes deal to push cost of bank failure on investors BRUSSELS: The European Union agreed on Thursday to force investors and wealthy savers to share the costs of future bank failures, moving closer to drawing a line under years of taxpayer-funded bailouts that have prompted public outrage. After seven hours of late night talks, finance ministers from the bloc’s 27 countries emerged with a blueprint to close or salvagebanks in trouble. The plan stipulates that shareholders, bondholders and depositors with more than 100,000 euros ($132,000) should share the burden of saving a bank. Read more of this post
‘Money as Debt-Promises Unleashed’ – I watched this documentary last night.It is made by the same person who made ‘Money as Debt’.Here is more about it :
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The Money Masters
July 27, 2011 2 Comments
I had trouble sleeping last night and so watched ‘The Money Masters’ on the internet.I found this documentary pretty biased.But that’s not to say that the narrator didn’t make some good points.
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