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Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest, the War on Cash, and the $10 Trillion Bail-in
Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest, the War on Cash, and the $10 Trillion Bail-in In uncertain times, “cash is king,” but central bankers are systematically moving to eliminate that option. Is it really about stimulating the economy? Or is there some deeper, darker threat afoot? Remember those old ads showing a senior couple lounging on […]
Who Exactly is Trying to Kill off Cash?
Who Exactly is Trying to Kill off Cash? In the Irish city of Cork, business leaders recently launched a three-month pilot project to encourage consumers to abandon the archaic use of cash by offering the chance to enter into a prize draw if they use electronic means of payment. It is a cheap, almost insulting inducement, but […]
Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest, the War on Cash, and the $10 Trillion Bail-in
Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest, the War on Cash, and the $10 Trillion Bail-in In uncertain times, “cash is king,” but central bankers are systematically moving to eliminate that option. Is it really about stimulating the economy? Or is there some deeper, darker threat afoot? Remember those old ads showing a senior couple lounging on […]
They’re coming for your cash
They’re coming for your cash It might sound like a conspiracy theory spun by right-wing crazies. But judging by the increasing desperation of governments to reboot the world economy, it just might happen. “It” is the recall or confiscation of cash, i.e., dollars, euros, pounds, etc., in physical form. And a key justification that those […]
Time to Keep Your Cash in the Microwave?
Time to Keep Your Cash in the Microwave? The Fed’s Big Pivot NORMANDY, France – “Now, I think I’ve seen everything” is an expression that – like “this is the end of history” and “I’ll never leave you” – usually turns out to be premature. But it is what we found ourselves saying yesterday. Not […]
Moneyweek: Hands Off Our Cash Petition
Moneyweek: Hands Off Our Cash Petition Andy Haldane recently floated the idea of abolishing cash so that radical monetary policy like negative interest rates can be implemented. You can sign the Moneyweek petition against this here: http://moneyweek.com/wp/hands-off-our-cash-petition Whereas the Bank of England’s Chief Economist Andrew Haldane announced on 18th September 2015 his intention to abolish use of cash in […]
Legal Fictions and new Battlegrounds in the War on Cash
Legal Fictions and new Battlegrounds in the War on Cash Greece – Ground Zero in the War on Cash? We believe it was our friend Claudio Grass of Global Gold in Switzerland who first mentioned that the eurocracy may possibly have plans to use the Greek crisis as an opportunity to expand the ongoing war […]
Cash Withdrawal Limits and “Bank Holidays” Coming
Cash Withdrawal Limits and “Bank Holidays” Coming Concerns that next crisis may be imminent Bail-ins, withdrawal limits and negative interest rates may be imposed FT proposes a ban on “barbarous relic” cash Central banks would have people “completely under their control” – Bonner Gold in safe jurisdictions will again protect wealth Collapsing commodities prices, erratic […]
The Case for Outlawing Cash
The Case for Outlawing Cash Losing Confidence GUALFIN, Argentina – September is here. As expected, market volatility is increasing. The Great Zombie War is intensifying. And investors are getting scared. On Tuesday, the Dow lost 470 points – a nearly 3% drop. Bloomberg: “U.S. stocks joined a worldwide sell-off, after equities’ worst month in more […]
Stop Financializing the Human Experience
Stop Financializing the Human Experience In this financialized hall of mirrors, narcissism replaces identity and the authentic self is rendered incoherent. Correspondent Dani A.M. (of Removing the Shackles) was kind enough to identify three bits of advice from my recent conversation with Max Keiser onSummer Solutions (25:45): (9:20 min: “We’ve been brainwashed into financializing the human experience.”) 1. […]
The War On Cash: Why Now?
The War On Cash: Why Now? You’ve probably read that there is a “war on cash” being waged on various fronts around the world. What exactly does a “war on cash” mean? It means governments are limiting the use of cash and a variety of official-mouthpiece economists are calling for the outright abolition of cash. […]
Germany Replacing Bank Cards and Eliminating Cash Withdrawals
Germany Replacing Bank Cards and Eliminating Cash Withdrawals The game is afoot to eliminate CASH. According to reliable sources, Maestro is seriously under attack. In Germany, Maestro was a multi-national debit card service owned by MasterCard and founded in 1992. Maestro cards obtained from associate banks and can be linked to the cardholder’s current account, or they can be used as prepaid cards. Already we […]
Why Banks & Governments Hate Cash: Bank Runs
Why Banks & Governments Hate Cash: Bank Runs The photos from Greece showing long lines at ATMs are astonishing. Even after the deposit outflows from Greek banks over the past weeks, there are still large numbers of people who are trying to get their money out of the banking system. With the banks closed, ATMs […]
Gold, the War on Cash and Greece – a Podcast with Claudio Grass
Gold, the War on Cash and Greece – a Podcast with Claudio Grass Claudio Shares his Ideas We were quite busy lately and are therefore actually a bit late in posting this podcast, in which our good friend Claudio Grass of Global Gold is interviewed by The Daily Coin on the recent hot topics of Greece, the […]
