Posted on 09/26/2013 7:28:11 PM PDT by gotribe
Now that "bail-ins" have become accepted practice all over the planet, no bank account and no pension fund will ever be 100% safe again. In fact, Cyprus-style wealth confiscation is already starting to happen all around the world. As you will read about below, private pension funds were just raided by the government in Poland, and a "bail-in" is being organized for one of the largest banks in Italy. Unfortunately, this is just the beginning.
The precedent that was set in Cyprus is being used as a template for establishing bail-in procedures in New Zealand, Canada and all over Europe. It is only a matter of time before we see this exact same type of thing happen in the United States as well. From now on, anyone that keeps a large amount of money in any single bank account or retirement fund is being incredibly foolish.
Let's take a look at a few of the examples of how Cyprus-style wealth confiscation is now moving forward all over the globe...
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What do you think quantitative easing is all about if not confiscation of wealth?
In a few years, the only money you will own will be money kept outside the Matrix. Plan ahead, because they won’t announce it ahead of time.
The local mom & pop coin shop is doing a much brisker business since BHO took over. Accumulating silver and/or gold in some form or fashion is not a bad idea.
Gold and silver are good, but a lot of countries will make it very hard to sell those, or tax them heavily. Look far and wide to store wealth, and not all in the same places. Some foreign currency, a business, land, cash, etc.
Oh, how I long for the good ol’ days of Coupon Bonds... *sigh*.
I’m not familiar with the term bail-in, other than a simple notion it is a bail-out in reverse.
Can someone offer a primer on it?
Does it apply only to bonds? Or, more generally to any pool of private money being usurped by govt? What about regular bank accounts?
Ammo has been very hard to get and the prices have been high since early January.
I see a little improvement in quantity on the shelf in retail stores. I see no softening on prices.
Even reloading supplies are still very hard to find.
I am still buying when I find something I need. My shopping list has been reduced over the past year.
The State takes part of the depositors’ money to recapitalize the bank.
Or the State confiscates bonds in pension funds to reduce its own debt.
Not sure any form of savings or wealth is safe if you don’t know the right people.
Scary read.
“Bail-in” is when deposits are used to pay off the bank’s debt. In Cyprus, all accounts greater than €500k were evenly looted for the “bail-in”.
Basically, your balance gets trimmed to save someone’s ass and all you get is a lousy letter saying “sorry”.
“Bail-in”: Everyone’s assets accessed and leveraged at will by the coming Tapering-Extortion-Care. QE Ponzi
bflr
The progressives largest theft the world has seen continues. Or is it armed robbery since they’re using the police forces of government to carry it out? “So who ya goin ta call?”
“The local mom & pop coin shop is doing a much brisker business since BHO took over. Accumulating silver and/or gold in some form or fashion is not a bad idea.”
The MEadowlands Flea Market (next to Giants Stadium here in NJ) has a fellow with all kinds of coins and bars; he never gets to sit down...
“Some foreign currency, a business, land, cash, etc.”
Land is the worst asset to have in the “new normal” economy; it is being used to strangle the middle class here in the northeast via taxation (which is why nobody wants to buy it except foreigners).
I’ve been warning people for years that their retirement accounts would be used at some point to save social security; without confiscating it, the government will probably use it to reduce your Social Security payments. The bird in the hand is still worth two in the bush...
“In a few years, the only money you will own will be money kept outside the Matrix. Plan ahead, because they won’t announce it ahead of time.”
Remember Argentina’s “bank holiday” a few years ago? People couldn’t access their money for days while the government adjusted it’s value. A few savvy people figured they could draw money from ATMs in neighboring Uruguay; the rest returned to devalued currency in their accounts. The value of cash itself is too easy for a government to manipulate; it is time we looked to Third World countries for the individuals’ “survival guide” to the “new normal”. In India when people are paid they purchase the necessities and buy gold with the remainder; it preserves their value against the decline of the rupee.
When people realize what’s happening, won’t they pull out their savings?
And won’t that lead to a crash of the banks and the market?
You’re probably right, but krugerrands and old US silver coins remain currency. I don’t see the government calling in mercury dimes and walking liberty halves, but maybe I am wrong.
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