Wow. EU steals 10% of bank deposits in exchange for bailout

Quote from budcampbell:

Cyprus votes down confiscation tax. EU/IMF forced to "eat crow".

Thay have not eaten crow yet, my guess is that when push comes to shove either Gazprom will own Greek part of Cyprus ( Southern Cyprus) i.e. known as Cyprus or Greek Cypriots will relent at the 11th hour as they have no hope of raising cash elsewhere. You see in Iceland they let the banks go bust because prior to heady 2000s they had no banking sector to speak of however in Cyprus banking and tourism has always been the mainstays of the economy i.e. they need banking for future generations.
 
The attempts to tax depositors bank deposits has me thinking the safest countries for depositors with large cash bank accounts would be within Switzerland, Canada, and Australia.
 
Quote from Mtrader:
Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal are risking a run on the bank too now.
Sorry, is this a thread from 2008 ? No wait, it's from march 2013 ! :D



Quote from budcampbell:

Cyprus votes down confiscation tax. EU/IMF forced to "eat crow".

Let me ask you this, in this thread are you identifying EU with Neonazi Germany ?
IMHO EU is not Germany.



Quote from Grandluxe:

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Decisions like this, much like the decision to haircut Greek debt in October 2011, actually benefit some countries. For example as we’ve seen from markets yesterday a decision like this reduces the financing costs for the German government so the German government can now borrow at negative rates as a result while it inflicts pain on other countries. Not everybody is equal under the law the way European governments are behaving these days.

This is why I worry about the future of Europe."
+1
Europe is already dead, at least since 2011
 
Quote from C6H12O6:

+1
Europe is already dead, at least since 2011 [/B]


About 44 million people in the US have no health insurance, and another 38 million have inadequate health insurance. This means that nearly one-third of Americans face each day without the security of knowing that, if and when they need it, medical care is available to them and their families.
Who is alive and who is dead?
 
Quote from Mtrader:

About 44 million people in the US have no health insurance, and another 38 million have inadequate health insurance. This means that nearly one-third of Americans face each day without the security of knowing that, if and when they need it, medical care is available to them and their families.
Who is alive and who is dead?
oh, it's available, no waiting, the question is who is going to pay for it?

I know a cook/chef who makes $15.00/hr who spent a month in the hospital and has an operation every 6 months. So far he has racked up 220k in medical bills. They never turn him away. He visits a a specialist every 3 weeks.

If he ever gets healed, he will just declare medical bankruptcy.

Only problem is, his medication comes to $600/mo, and that must come out of his pocket.
 
Quote from Catoosa:

The attempts to tax depositors bank deposits has me thinking the safest countries for depositors with large cash bank accounts would be within Switzerland, Canada, and Australia.


if anything it shows that small countries with over sized banking sectors are not a good bet at all i.e. Switzerland, so far Iceland let its banks go bankrupt hurting thousands of small depositors in Britain & Holland and Cyprus is now attempting to tax the depositors. Your money is safest in the large developed nations with relatively smaller banking sectors ( in relation to their GDP) eg US, Germany etc..
 
Quote from dealmaker:

if anything it shows that small countries with over sized banking sectors are not a good bet at all i.e. Switzerland, so far Iceland let its banks go bankrupt hurting thousands of small depositors in Britain & Holland and Cyprus is now attempting to tax the depositors. Your money is safest in the large developed nations with relatively smaller banking sectors ( in relation to their GDP) eg US, Germany etc..
anybody with more than 250k in any one USA bank deserves just what they get
 
Quote from bluematrix:

i think whatever happens in cyprus it's good news for euro. if it's bailed out then less problem, if it leaves the EU then even better - think euro will actually rally if it did leave, same for greece - as I think long-term it will exist but maybe not by as many members as today. but who wants a strong euro any way??

why in hell is it not at 1.20 already? i think central banks have worked hard to maintain a value range for the main pairs. there are lot of 'currency war' talk but i think it's perfectly co-ordinated. without all this mess, eur/usd would be at 1.40+

Good thinking! Will see.
 
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