Quote: (03-19-2013 12:38 AM)tenderman100 Wrote:
You have LOANED money to a bank when you deposit money with them. You have not taken an EQUITY position. To take an equity position, you buy stock.
Most importantly, this is not about this bank, or that bank, failing. It is about the government -- read the EU Central bank -- confiscating the cash of citizens to re-orient the balance of payments deficit of a nation state. This is not about you, or me, investing is some enterprise that is going belly up and needs a cash infusion. This is about a supra-national state stealing money from individuals (Russian oligarchs count as individuals too).
It's that simple.
You lend the money a bank, but no bank can be sure of getting back all that it lent if the debtor goes bankrupt. Why shouldn't creditors with bank deposits not be required to run the same risk? If we did require this of them, they'd be far more critical of with whom they place their money, and risk-taking banks would be punished.
This is also a reason I suspect low-level inflation is a major scam from CBs that drive up inequality, because simply stuffing cash in the mattress is expensive in the long run. But that's another beast.
As for the bailout: I personally count myself as a conservative, but a one-time property tax makes the most sense to me. But only if we can be sure the government will learn from its mistakes. Which it won't. So it's not a good idea. Too bad.
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