Wow, you’re suckers. (It’s not up to date but I thought it should be noted here.)
“If the bank can’t do it, then we’ll talk to the shareholders and the bondholders, we’ll ask them to contribute in recapitalising the bank, and if necessary the uninsured deposit holders.”
Funny how that “if necessary” was treated as a mandatory.
Even more funny is how Governments strong-arming banks they thought had money into buying Government debt kinda caused this… Make the banks give the Government money for paper, then blame the bank and its shareholders/depositors for the banks running out of money… Take more money from the public… As if this won’t lead to the Governments demanding the banks take their bonds again!
So let me make my interpretation of this even clearer: The EU forced banks in the zone to take on Government bonds to paper over their market weakness. Then when these banks ran out of money they blamed the depositors for supposedly over-inflating the banks and declared that in recompense the depositors needed to pay the Government money.
All made particularly bitter by:
‘Look, there where you take on the risks, you must deal with them, and if you can’t deal with them, then you shouldn’t have taken them on,'” he said.
Hmm, like being strongly encouraged to buy marginal national debt? Or being effectively ordered to not collect on outstanding national bonds?
I’m not saying Russian bulk depositors are angels, but the EU sure had no problems with an “inflated” Cypriot banking sector when it could be made to buy junk bonds. There was only a problem when the gravy train stopped.
Government: THE racket.
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By the way Wormme, I think you have some comments to moderate.
The EUSSR is one of the greatest scams ever conceived by man.
As much as I hate this apparatus, I have to give them credit where credit is due. It was brilliantly done.
National Socialists have always been good at that kind of thing.
I think they’re more International Socialists.
They use the language of Internationalism, but they clearly have no desire to surrender power, just to take it from ‘undesirables’ via the veneer.
It’s quite a sinister new-imperialism.
This is another MG/Worme misidentification. You guys really have the same style.
I’ve been following Cyprus only vaguely with a tsk tsk and an “Again?” This is the first time it’s been broken down for me. I mean, I already knew it was broken down but I meant in terms of understanding.
They’re stuck in musical chairs with all this paper they’ve pushed around. God help whoever gets stuck without a chair when the song really ends.
Unfortunately, there is not single entitity that will be stuck once the music stops. There will be an epic world wide economic meltdown. And another world war. After said war is over, there will be numerous piles of radiactive ash. Whether or not there will be enough people and knowledge to keep the human race going after such a war is anyones guess. Nuclear war>Plague>breakdown of civilization>retreat into feudalism>slavery>descent into barbarism.
I try not to follow it anymore. Because if I do, I know I just end up screaming and will eventually go nuts.
In the immortal words of Otter, “You f*cked up, you trusted us.”
Mhmm, far too many people did; even though they didn’t get any meaningful input into who these new aristocrats are!
crap, comment stuck in moderation.
That the comment you meant? (I’m limited to comments to my posts only.)
Yup.