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This is a public competition for the best way for Greece to leave EU. Works of five economists were selected and are available for download at the Web site.

These are LARGE documents. I read only one, it's 156 pages long. However they are quite interesting. These documents lay bare the mechanisms by which a government can "reset" its economy by declaring that all its citizens have now nothing. For example:

More stringent capital controls could be imposed. Resident households and businesses might be forbidden from acquiring foreign assets, investing overseas or holding bank accounts outside their own country. Borrowing and lending abroad can be forbidden or limited. Residents might be required to exchange any foreign currency acquired through sales, gifts, subsidies and so on back into the domestic currency. Foreign businesses operating in the exiting country might be forbidden from repatriating profits. Fines could be imposed for violation of any of these rules.

This is what's being prepared for Greece and perhaps a few other of PIIGS countries. However if anything is to happen to the US dollar, the USA will see exactly the same scenario. I'd classify these documents as an early warning.

1 posted on 04/03/2012 4:09:12 PM PDT by Greysard
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To: Greysard
Wolfson gurus noticed in EUSSR

Wolfson gurus see euro break-up as dangerous but liberating

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2 posted on 04/03/2012 4:37:58 PM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds." -- Ayn Rand)
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Seems like a stupid competition because the solution is simple. Government lay off and make gold the currency and everything will be fine. In the meantime, do not bailout banks, but separate the depositors accounts from failing banks and tie them directly to the borrowers.

Such competitions do injustice to everyone because they elevate common sense economics to the level of something only the super-intelligent can understand. This plays right into the hands of liberals.


3 posted on 04/03/2012 5:02:39 PM PDT by JimWayne
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