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India – On a Downward Spiral
India – On a Downward Spiral India’s Currency Ban – Part IX India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on 8th November 2016 that Rs 500 (~$7.50) and Rs 1,000 (~$15) banknotes would no longer be legal tender. Sadly, the despondency visible in the old man’s facial expression has become a widespread phenomenon since the currency […]
Greece Unleashes ‘Soft’ Cash Ban
Greece Unleashes ‘Soft’ Cash Ban The spread of global cash bans continues with Greece unveiling their so-called ‘soft’ approach by which taxpayers will only be granted tax-allowances or deductions when payments are made via credit or debit cards. As KeepTalkingGreeece reports, the new guidelines refer to employees, pensioners, farmers, and also the unemployed. Accepted expenditure will be: purchases for […]
India’s Prime Minister Has Singlehandedly Crushed the Economy with His Reckless Cash Ban
India’s Prime Minister Has Singlehandedly Crushed the Economy with His Reckless Cash Ban Today’s piece should be seen as a bit of a followup to yesterday’s post, India’s Demonetization Debacle Highlights the Dangers of Monetary Monopoly. While yesterday’s piece was more philosophical/strategic in nature, today’s zeroes in on some of the devastating real world impacts of Narendra […]
An interesting perspective on the War on Cash
An interesting perspective on the War on Cash It’s happening faster than we could have ever imagined. Every time we turn around, it seems, there’s another major assault in the War on Cash. India is the most notable recent example– the embarrassing debacle a few weeks ago in which the government, overnight, “demonetized” its two […]
Cash Bans and the Next Crisis
Cash Bans and the Next Crisis Criminalizing Cash Money sometimes goes “full politics”. Take poor Kenneth Rogoff at Harvard. He wants a dollar with a voter registration card, a U.S. flag on its windshield, and a handgun in its belt – the kind of money that supports the Establishment and votes for Hillary. Etatiste tool […]
Cash Banned, Freedom Gone
Cash Banned, Freedom Gone Some politicians want to ban cash, arguing that cash is helping criminals. The first steps in that direction are the withdrawal of big denomination notes and the limits imposed on cash payments. Proponents of a ban on cash claim that this will help fight criminal transactions — involved in money laundering, terrorism, and […]
Sweden Begins 5 Year Countdown Until It Eliminates Cash
Sweden Begins 5 Year Countdown Until It Eliminates Cash How much louder can the “ban cash” calls get? Recall it was just last year when we catalogued the growing cacophony of crazies for whom banning physical currency is the only way to ensure that depositors can’t simply reassert their economic autonomy under a low or zero rate […]
Germany Unveils “Cash Controls” Push: Ban Transactions Over €5,000, €500 Euro Note
Germany Unveils “Cash Controls” Push: Ban Transactions Over €5,000, €500 Euro Note It was just two days ago that Bloomberg implored officials to “bring on a cashless future” in an Op-Ed that calls notes and coins “dirty, dangerous, unwieldy, and expensive.” You probably never thought of your cash that way, but increasingly, authorities and the powers that […]
So It Begins: Bloomberg Op-Ed Calls For An End Of Cash
So It Begins: Bloomberg Op-Ed Calls For An End Of Cash In a moment of curious serendipity, a little over 90 minutes after we showed what a dystopian, centrally-planned, cashless society unleashed in a negative interest rate world would look like (“by forcing people and companies to convert their paper money into bank deposits, the hope is […]
Bank Of Ireland Bans “Small” Cash Withdrawals At Branches
Bank Of Ireland Bans “Small” Cash Withdrawals At Branches As central planners the world over grapple with the effective “lower bound” that’s imposed by the existence of physical banknotes, there’s been no shortage of calls for a ban on cash. Put simply, if you eliminate physical currency, you also eliminate the idea of a floor […]
Greek Cash Ban Escalates: Imposes ‘Permanent’ Stricter “Capital Controls” On 3 Million Pensioners, Civil Servants
Greek Cash Ban Escalates: Imposes ‘Permanent’ Stricter “Capital Controls” On 3 Million Pensioners, Civil Servants In a stunning move towards the elites’ endgame of ‘banning cash’, Greek authorities unveiled stricter capital controls for civil servants and pensioners this weekend. By drastically limiting cash withdrawals and forcing the more ‘controllable’ compulsory use of plastic money, Greek authorities […]
Martin Armstrong Reports on a Secret Meeting in London to Ban Cash
Martin Armstrong Reports on a Secret Meeting in London to Ban Cash At this point, anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention to the central planning economic totalitarians running the fraudulent global financial system is aware of the blatant push in the media to acclimate the masses to accepting a “cashless society.” In the mind […]
“Cash Is Coined Freedom”: War on Cash Becomes Official in Germany, Reaches G-7, Draws Withering Fire
“Cash Is Coined Freedom”: War on Cash Becomes Official in Germany, Reaches G-7, Draws Withering Fire It came from a voice that has, by law, the ear of the German government. Peter Bofinger is a member of the German Council of Economic Experts – the “Five Sages on the Economy” – which in its official […]
Money is Coined Liberty – The Latest Salvos in the War on Cash
Money is Coined Liberty – The Latest Salvos in the War on Cash Another Keynesian Voodoo Economist Wants to See Cash Abolished We have a few more bad news and for a change also some good news with respect to the ongoing attempt to prepare the ground for a ban of cash currency. By now […]
