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LIVE: Deal Reached On Cyprus Bailout
TBI ^ | 3-24-2013 | Matthew Boesler

Posted on 03/24/2013 7:11:45 PM PDT by blam

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To: blam

I would imagine Spanish and Italians in their countries would be removing their deposits toot sweet, if they haven’t already.


81 posted on 03/25/2013 5:28:36 AM PDT by Ronald_Magnus
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To: blam
Their money simply got "furloughed." That's all.

They need to use the proper language so that the theft of money doesn't sound so bad.

82 posted on 03/25/2013 6:17:34 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Moltke

So it’s okay for the bondholders to lose nothing? I seem to remember that they should lose every penny before a depositor loses a single penny.


83 posted on 03/25/2013 6:29:41 AM PDT by EEGator
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Person said the ‘rich’ would pay. Looks correct from here.

100,000 euros is only just under $130,000. That's hardly the 'rich', at least here. Maybe it is if Cyprus is socialist.

I'm sure Obama and the other socialists/communists here are foaming at the mouth hearing about this 'solution'. Our 401Ks will be raided first.
84 posted on 03/25/2013 8:25:33 AM PDT by yorkiemom
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To: blam

So this DOESN’T amount to theft against those with more than 100,000 Euros.... how?


85 posted on 03/25/2013 8:59:23 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
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To: SkyPilot

Sequestered. Their money got sequestered.


86 posted on 03/25/2013 9:01:51 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
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Cyprus Shows Your Savings Will Be Stolen! UK Theft Is By Means Of High Inflation
87 posted on 03/25/2013 9:05:04 AM PDT by blam
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To: Lazamataz

Your silly little American brain just doesn’t get it.


88 posted on 03/25/2013 9:22:45 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: blam

Most of the accounts over 100K euros will either be laundered Russian money or Cypriot small/medium sized businesses, not an individual fatcat/playboy. I would think that these accounts would be way over the 100K threshold, otherwise this action wouldn’t solve anything.

So let’s look at Cypriot business owners.

So a Cypriot furniture store owner with 1M euros in the bank has now just lost 360,000 euros. Other small-medium businesses will likewise be hit hard.

Small businesses will close their doors and liquidate their assets, and maybe move away from Cyprus. People will lose their jobs.

Look for Cypriots with less than 100,000 in the bank to withdraw their savings. Because after they lose their job, they’ll need the money to buy food.


89 posted on 03/25/2013 11:22:39 AM PDT by kidd
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To: EEGator
So it’s okay for the bondholders to lose nothing? I seem to remember that they should lose every penny before a depositor loses a single penny.

When the bank goes bust - no bailout! - how would the bond holders 'lose nothing' (they would, and should, lose everything)? I'm not quite sure I understand you correctly.

The bank's business model: Offer interest on deposits/investments waaay above what others offer. Ooops, that didn't work ---> bust! Now why should anyone else (the taxpayers of those countries that finance the bailout - mostly small savers themselves) be on the hook for those that played a risky game (high interest = high risk)? The Cypriot local savers with their small deposits are insured anyway. The high rollers shouldn't reap the benefit if all goes well and be able to pass off a loss to others if it doesn't. IMHO.

90 posted on 03/25/2013 11:38:04 AM PDT by Moltke ("I am Dr. Sonderborg," he said, "and I don't want any nonsense.")
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To: Moltke

What I read last night about the deal was that the bondholders were going to lose nothing. Today in the news it says they are going to lose money as well. I’m not a proponent of bailouts, the situation as I understood it has changed.

They need to raise 5.9 billion euros to receive 10 billion euros in bailout money. I think this EU experiment will not end well. It’s just a matter of how long will kick the can be played.


91 posted on 03/25/2013 11:42:57 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

Next stop Spain and then Italy then the wheels really come off in the socialist utopia that is Europe.


92 posted on 03/25/2013 11:52:12 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: blam

They take already taxed money and “tax” it again.

This is just a bureaucratic way of boldly grabbing money from people. One can make a case for the interest on that principal being taxable, but to just grab money???

It tells everyone in the world to get their money out of accounts. They won’t do it, though. It’s too easy to leave it there for paying bills, moving it around, collecting that pittance of interest, etc.


93 posted on 03/25/2013 12:09:48 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: blam

Maybe I’m the only one noticing how similar Cyprus and Detroit are? About the same population and about the same debt. But the Detroits don’t apparently have any big-bucks Russian depositors to steal from. You folks in Detroit better keep your heads down.


94 posted on 03/25/2013 1:26:03 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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"But the Detroits don’t apparently have any big-bucks Russian depositors to steal from."

Ha...cherokee1, they will wind up getting YOUR tax money as part of a bailout. You don't really expect anyone in Detroit to pay do you? Come on.

The committee set up by the state government will offer state money for a bailout if the federal government will make a federal GRANT (your money) into the bailout.(The federal bailouts will be made through the states to mask the federal give-aways to these DEMOCRAT run cities.)

This will happen again and again as other cities go bankrupt too.

95 posted on 03/25/2013 2:51:39 PM PDT by blam
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