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PierreLaRogue
19 Mar 13 17:16
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Simple question, where is money safe from a banking collapse? is it just gold/assets and property? would cash be worth anything? this whole Cyprus thing has me questioning all this, a bankrun would bankrupt europe in just a few days is my assessment and we might not be far from that.
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Report Menelaus March 19, 2013 5:31 PM GMT
The short answer to your question is, I don't know anymore.

Here's the long answer.

The Cyprus government which hasn't voted yet (the vote keeps getting postponed) has now made public statements that they EU imposed depositor haircut "solution" will not pass parliament. The ruling party DISY will abstain and all other parties in parliament will vote NO.

What happens next is anyone's guess, my guess is the EU will miraculously find some cash under the pillow and hand it to the Cypriots so that they own banks don't collapse, which was what their concern was all about in the first place.

The damage is done however, no matter how it plays out from this point on. Confidence in the system had been shaken by anyone who can spell their own name without making a mistake.

This was a trial balloon about......silence please.....the gradual abolition of property rights. The most fundamental pillar of human rights and the foundation of a free market and a free economy.

If they can do this to your bank account, why is your property safe? Greeks have be levied "special tax" on property twice now since the crisis started with a third one in the works. If you don't pay, you are evicted and your property is confiscated. Where's the property rights Greeks (and all civilized people) thought they had?

If they can do this to your bank account and confiscate your savings, why is your gold safe from confiscation? It's been done before in the US and the subtle difference between now and then has now all been erased.  In  1933 gold was money, today it is merely an asset, it is merely property like your house or anything else you own. The subtle difference who made confiscation today extremely difficult, if not impossible, was the fundamental protection citizens of civilized democratic societies thought they had through fundamental and safeguarded by the letter of the law property rights. This fine line no longer exits.

This system needs to collapse to be reformed. It is too corrupt, too Orwellian, too powerful, too controlling and intrusive in peoples  lives to be gradually reformed. Luckily enough however (yes, yes, I know, before you say it, I don't mean to trivialize the total chaos involved with a collapse) but what started in March 2007 is an unstable force that needs to play out. The system was designed to fail from the outset, all that's taking place now is the final transfer of hard asset wealth into the hands of the friends of the money cartel. Patience.
Report Slim Pickens March 19, 2013 6:50 PM GMT
best bet is stick it in the equities like gas n oil, buy as much of the gold silver n copper as u can and ahve some portable assets, we used to rip the piss out of rap stars for all that bling....turns out maybe they wernt that daft after all, spread your risk people
Report Menelaus March 19, 2013 7:47 PM GMT
There you go, the money magically found under a pillow as predicted. The illusion must go on by doing "whatever it takes". This is the same ECB who cut off liquidity to Cyprus' second largest bank, Laiki Bank, during the EU leadership meeting just a short couple of days ago. But it must be "within the rules" of course..Laugh

One can only laugh at this stage....

https://twitter.com/BloombergNews/status/314094148137414656
Report Slim Pickens March 19, 2013 8:06 PM GMT
ok then we it didnt take a genius to realise the cash would be found but given the present perilous state of confidence in all things banking i really do doubt this was done deliberately to take control of the gas fields and undermine russian confidence. If this started a major european bank run a lot more would be at stake than 600 billion of gas, dynasties could die and governments topple.
Report Menelaus March 19, 2013 8:25 PM GMT
You overestimate their intelligence.

They've run roughshod over Ireland, Portugal, Greece and even Spain and Italy, so they thought puny little Cyprus was child's play. They underestimated the public's reaction as well as the significant influence Russia holds over the island. They also underestimated international reaction.

...and yes, this is all about ENERGY, not an insignificant 17bn euro, (Bernanke prints that every six days) that Cyprus needed. Please don't ask me to explain again, if you don't get it, you don't get it, that's fine, it's not like I' trying to convert you to Catholicism.

I can only take you to the door, taking the next step to go through is entirely up to you.
Report Eeternaloptimist March 19, 2013 8:30 PM GMT
You are funny Melly. This thread says all that needs to be said about your modus operandi. One minute a blinding moment of realisation with you correctly accepting that you actually don't know. The next you again perfectly reasonably say that what happens next is anybody's idea before positing the most likely option and then declaring your genius because you had predicted it all along. Bravo.
Report Menelaus March 19, 2013 8:31 PM GMT
Still addicted, eh?

It's FOREVER mug, I made sure of that. Devil
Report Menelaus March 19, 2013 8:32 PM GMT
Now run back to the Politics forum to see if I posted anything over there.

LaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaugh
Report Slim Pickens March 19, 2013 8:33 PM GMT
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/sep/27/tragedy-european-union-and-how-resolve-it/

this dude wseems to have a clue, btw he is the richest man ever
Report Eeternaloptimist March 19, 2013 8:37 PM GMT
Pierre

Money isn't safe from a banking collapse. What is money if not merely a piece of paper backed by confidence? Collapse that confidence and that paper will return to its true value. So total is the states grip over our lives now that it can and probably will do anything to perpetuate its status. What you have to understand is the difference in how roman and civil law systems tend to operate and even in common law systems like (traditionally) ours and indeed America's they can pass laws forcing you to comply with their demands.

Nobody can give you any great insight or predictions because there are none to be given. All I'd say is the obvious of diversifying to the extent that you can and hope.
Report Eeternaloptimist March 19, 2013 8:40 PM GMT
Melly

No need. You just post a different version of the Melly show wherever you are. You' d turn up as The Incredible Bullshiitting Man if you pitched up on the Snooker forum.
Report Menelaus March 19, 2013 8:45 PM GMT
Why didn't you post "I hope for the best and prepare for the worse" and save us some time.

LaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaugh


No, really, money is merely a piece of paper backed by confidence? Seriously? And all this time I thought it was something every country and every economy needed to buy oil, and that it was backed by the mightiest army the world has ever seen.

Save the sh1t you lift out of rags you read for the Politics forum, not here.
Report Slim Pickens March 19, 2013 8:45 PM GMT
kinda what i was saying, really, spread the risk look to the old and new safe havens and pray, if i could i'd buy a small island and stuff it full of wave generators guns and sheep...probably in the inner hebrides, no fecker there really. unfortunately interesting times are ahead of that i am certain.
Report Eeternaloptimist March 19, 2013 8:49 PM GMT
The Melly show is open for business. Many customers through the door today Melly? Must be difficult getting return visitors.
Report Menelaus March 19, 2013 8:52 PM GMT
Getting spanked on here is old news for you. What I want to know is how you feel getting spanked in your own back yard now?Wink
Report Eeternaloptimist March 19, 2013 8:52 PM GMT
Slim

I live pretty close to that kind of lifestyle myself but no man is an island. I'm careful about advocating going down that route and indeed fully embracing it myself because in the worst case scenario I'm not really sure I want to be around if the balloon goes up.









































By the way Melly in this case the balloon isn't you. The exception which proves the rule.
Report Menelaus March 19, 2013 8:53 PM GMT
I guess there's only so many times you can post "I love Thatcher" when the discussion is about economics and get away with it.

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Report Eeternaloptimist March 19, 2013 8:54 PM GMT
You're a card Melly. Running over to the politics begging for my attention just so you can dance for me and then you have the temerity to speak about getting spanked.
Report Menelaus March 19, 2013 8:54 PM GMT
Hustle over to the Politics forum, I rang a bell for you over there.Wink
Report Menelaus March 19, 2013 8:55 PM GMT
Remind me again, how do you plan......(you know the rest)Grin
Report Eeternaloptimist March 19, 2013 8:55 PM GMT
Indeed there is but there seems no limit to the number of times you can say, it's all about the oil and look at my huge balls.
Report Eeternaloptimist March 19, 2013 8:56 PM GMT
I seem to have energised you Melly. Put something over the keys before you squirt. Wink
Report Menelaus March 19, 2013 8:56 PM GMT
You should exactly how huge my balls are, they've been up your *** more times than I care to remember.Laugh
Report Menelaus March 19, 2013 8:57 PM GMT
What I've done to you is irreversible. But then again, I think you know that.Wink
Report Eeternaloptimist March 19, 2013 9:01 PM GMT
Reduced to bragging about male buggery. You couldn't make it up. The Melly show has a special adult evening programme.










































Unfortunately it's shiit. No change there.
Report Menelaus March 19, 2013 9:11 PM GMT
It's FOREVER mug.

And I'd be lying if I said I wasn't enjoying it.Devil


P.S. That's what happens when you bring my balls up in your posts, you end up having them up your...... Then you complain like a crybaby. Same as it always been.Laugh
Report Slim Pickens March 19, 2013 9:25 PM GMT

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Slim

I live pretty close to that kind of lifestyle myself but no man is an island. I'm careful about advocating going down that route and indeed fully embracing it myself because in the worst case scenario I'm not really sure I want to be around if the balloon goes up.


i totally agree i dont have a family so will probably go hunting for the feckers what got us in this mess, but if i had kids this is the safest option given a large cash surplus . goldsmith didnt build his little enclave in peru for feck all now did he.
Report Menelaus March 19, 2013 9:41 PM GMT
"I live pretty close to that kind of lifestyle myself"


And you believe what he posted, yes?

P.T. Barnum was right after all.

You should ask him how he manages to do that in a wheelchair, popping Zoloft and receiving NHS assistance just to get by.

I'm not trying to be mean, I'm just trying to open your eyes.
Report Slim Pickens March 19, 2013 9:47 PM GMT
you have not given us one single answer to what the fook we should do
Report Menelaus March 19, 2013 9:54 PM GMT
Start with shutting up.Wink
Report Slim Pickens March 19, 2013 9:55 PM GMT
you are going to regret that
Report Menelaus March 19, 2013 9:56 PM GMT
Sure, whatever you say Cry
Report Slim Pickens March 19, 2013 10:02 PM GMT
say sorry and we can move on dont and i will have your giblets stuffed and mounted in my trophy cabinet, i never made one direct attack on you and did nothing but debate a point
Report Menelaus March 19, 2013 10:10 PM GMT
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Report Slim Pickens March 19, 2013 10:18 PM GMT
ok war is declared
Report Eeternaloptimist March 19, 2013 11:03 PM GMT
Slim

Is he really worth the effort? Laugh at him. It gets him every time. I applaud your intention to take direct action against the perps but they will probably be gone to that safe enclave if things get ugly.
Report Slim Pickens March 19, 2013 11:14 PM GMT
he drew first blood after no provocation on a thread he didnt even create and i dont like his style, at best its weak rhetoric at worst its condescension bordering on solipsism, go on the horse racing forum and ask about me they will tell u just how angry and determined i can get when i want to be, i have had a lot better than him off the forum in days, i would prefer to do it in a challenge ie making some cash but this guy does not have a bolt thats obvious....all he has to do is say sorry
Report Eeternaloptimist March 19, 2013 11:32 PM GMT
I've smacked his arse a few times. The problem as you are about to find out is that despite wobbling around like a Glaswegian lottery winner he just repeats the same tired old chiched comments day after day and it really all gets very boring. As in fact any discussion with him does which isn't stroking his ego.
Report Menelaus March 19, 2013 11:42 PM GMT
You smacked my arse so many times my hand hurts ///snarkLaugh
Report Eeternaloptimist March 20, 2013 12:52 AM GMT
Not as much as your brain.
Report Menelaus March 20, 2013 6:19 AM GMT
Wow, look who showed up again, like a moth attracted to a bright light. This was totally unexpected.

ShockedShockedShockedShockedLaughLaughLaughLaughSillySillySillySillyWhoops


Go on, make my brain hurt, give me another of those trademark hilarious lines of yours. You know, like your recent brain fart "water is a commodity" that you humiliated yourself with, or the oldie but goodie "hyperinflation is monthly inflation over 50pc" that you lifted out of wikipedia not knowing it was debunked.

Or perhaps, give us some really original advice like "I hope for the best and prepare for the worse", I never heard that one before. Such wisdom ! Hell, at this point I'll even settle for yesterday's massive nugget of wisdom you passed on to Pierre "what is money if not merely a piece of paper backed by confidence", I'm sure he, or anyone else posting on a finacials forum, was never aware of that.  The last one of course best sung to the tune of Tina Turner's "what's love but a second hand emotion" and having a mental image of you in a clown's suit.

But if you really want to make my brain hurt, start having a conversation with yourself again, posting with any two of your many aliases on here. You know, like a back and forth with chatlame pretending there's two of you, that's always entertaining. Totally insane but very entertaining nonetheless.






























































I don't just slay dragons, I rip their heart and liver out and eat it too.Wink
Report Slim Pickens March 20, 2013 8:10 AM GMT
please explain what cash is then all knowing one?
Report Menelaus March 20, 2013 9:02 AM GMT
Nice, you said please, now say you are sorry and then we're getting somewhere.Wink
Report Eeternaloptimist March 20, 2013 11:25 AM GMT
Poor Melly. Still needy. Still the triplet who missed out on bitty. So, so damaged.
Report Eeternaloptimist March 20, 2013 11:25 AM GMT
Reduced to invented quotes just to get my attention. Tut tut Melly.
Report Menelaus March 20, 2013 12:26 PM GMT
Inventing quotes???LaughLaughLaugh

The posts are still up for all to see, you shameless lunatic. Or, do you think people on here have the memory of a goldfish?

And for someone who runs from forum to forum sniffing my balls everyday, to think I'm trying to get your attention is as crazy as having those conversations with yourself.

Laugh
Report Eeternaloptimist March 20, 2013 2:27 PM GMT
"hyperinflation is monthly inflation over 50pc"

Source and full quote please.
Report Menelaus March 20, 2013 2:59 PM GMT
The sun hasn't come up yet for the day that you send me scouring through six month old posts to prove something everyone who frequents this forum already knows is true.

Besides, I ring the bells and you salivate on here. Same as it always wasWink
Report Eeternaloptimist March 20, 2013 9:47 PM GMT
It would be so much more becoming if you just accepted that it was stupid to lie. I remember the post I made and it certainly wasn't what you have said. So put up or shut up and stop invoking an imaginary crowd which no longer exists because of your antics.

What is it to be? Find some stones and man up or more bullshiit?
Report Menelaus March 20, 2013 10:23 PM GMT
You need a better comedy routine. Wink
Report Eeternaloptimist March 20, 2013 11:19 PM GMT
You need to stop trying to con people. Nobody is buying it. Shape up or shiit out. Provide the evidence.
Report Menelaus March 21, 2013 11:11 AM GMT
Speaking of a con, ask chatlame, he'll tell you.Laugh

(Well, a poor con anyways since anyone who can fog a mirror knows by know)

But, have that conversation with him on this thread, make my brain hurt.Wink
Report Menelaus March 21, 2013 11:11 AM GMT
now
Report Menelaus March 21, 2013 11:15 AM GMT
Oh f/k, wait, wait, I wish I had gone over to the Politics forum first.

You did bring chatlame out of your sick mind afterall

LaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaugh

chatlame 21 Mar 13 00:32 
He is good to heel his wounds so it will not take long time before he is cocky again
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I ring a bell, you start salivating, same as it always was.Grin
Report Eeternaloptimist March 21, 2013 9:01 PM GMT
Just say it. You lied. It may be cathartic.
Report Eeternaloptimist March 21, 2013 9:01 PM GMT
That's the only issue despite your bluster.
Report Menelaus March 23, 2013 4:42 PM GMT
When I said you need a better comedy routine, I meant funnier, not more pathetic.































I just rung a bell. Here's your dilemma. Do you continue to show up salivating whenever I ring a bell, or do you stay silent to prove I don't have control over your reactions?

Choose wisely Wink
Report Eeternaloptimist March 23, 2013 9:29 PM GMT
Piss and wind but still no answer. You lied again I spanked you again and you can talk about bells and whistles as much as you like but a man who can't put up when he shouts his fat mouth off is yellow to the core.
Report chatlame March 24, 2013 11:32 AM GMT
What is wrong with the Tampax-level? Plain
Report Menelaus March 24, 2013 11:42 AM GMT
Pavlov had an name for what I keep getting you to do, he called getting the dogs to salivate by simply ringing a bell an "involuntary reaction". I have a different name for it...Wink
Report Menelaus March 24, 2013 11:44 AM GMT
Pavlov has a name for what I keep getting you to do, he called getting dogs to salivate by simply ringing a bell an "involuntary reaction". I have a different name for it...Devil
Report Menelaus March 24, 2013 11:47 AM GMT
Pavlov has a name for what I keep getting you to do, he called getting dogs to salivate by simply ringing a bell an "involuntary reaction". I have a different name for it...
Report Menelaus March 24, 2013 12:08 PM GMT
Which of the three invokes the most violent emotion out of you?
Report Eeternaloptimist March 24, 2013 1:30 PM GMT
Violent reaction? I'd say constantly hitting that button represents quite a violent reaction wouldn't you?
Report Menelaus March 25, 2013 12:37 PM GMT
I think you meant to post that as chatlame, yes?Laugh
Report Stow_judge March 25, 2013 6:02 PM GMT
I just read an article on zero hedge. Cisco Certis in Singapore is the place to go. Grin

"If you don't want to carry gold, both Singapore and Austria are full of options to purchase bullion, tax-free. In Austria, most banks sell Austrian Philharmonic coins-- a 24 karat coin struck in 999.9 fineness that's recognized around the world.

In Singapore, it's also easy to buy gold at many banks, particularly the main branch of UOB downtown. Or if you prefer, you can stop in Hong Kong along the way and buy your gold there-- Hong Kong banks consistently have ultra-low gold premiums.

A private box at Das Safe in Vienna starts at 360 euros per year (about $470). At Cisco Certis in Singapore, it's much more cost effective at S$149 annually (about $120)."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-06/guest-post-number-1-problem-when-owning-gold
Report Menelaus March 25, 2013 6:29 PM GMT
So let me get this straight, in case of a banking system collapse as we have witnessed in Cyprus, they don't allow you to have access to your money (100 euro per day MAX through ATMs whenever you can find one that still has enough cash to dispense) BUT......they will allow you access to retrieve your gold from a private box? Or is Singapore (1997) and Austria (Creditanstald) immune to banking collapses?

Hmmmm, I'd rethink that if I were you.....Shocked
Report Money Tree cost me thousands!! March 26, 2013 8:44 AM GMT
Do why melly does and put all funds I to heroin.
Report Menelaus March 26, 2013 11:48 AM GMT
How many alter egos have you created on here FFS?

Gnarley comes out of the freezer (50 posts in 5 years) to defend you on the "water is a commodity" turd you dropped on the politics forum, when everyone on that thread was p1ss1ng on you, and now another alias comes out of hibernation (227 posts in 5 years) to drop an insult.

You need professional help.













































Do you know what the biggest tell someone has been turned over badly on here?Wink
Report Eeternaloptimist March 26, 2013 5:48 PM GMT
I'd say it would have to be excusing you getting your pants pulled down on account of there being ten of them.
































































I'll bet they were built like brick shiithouses as well weren't they Melly? LaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaugh
Report Menelaus March 26, 2013 8:44 PM GMT
Push your cart down the street, you pathetic psychopath, no one here is buying whatever sh1t you are trying to sell.
Report Eeternaloptimist March 27, 2013 12:45 AM GMT
Of course they aren't. It's your useless hide in the cart. Who'd give good money for that?
Report Menelaus March 27, 2013 2:45 PM GMT
I'll post something as soon as I get done feasting on your liver.
Report Eeternaloptimist March 27, 2013 6:27 PM GMT
Poor. Made worse by the amount of time you spent thinking of that weak effort.
Report Menelaus March 27, 2013 6:32 PM GMT
The only thing poor on here is your continued ability to humiliate yourself.
Report Eeternaloptimist March 27, 2013 10:40 PM GMT
And you've never done that have you? LaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaugh
Report Pokermonster March 28, 2013 12:41 AM GMT
Tradefair and Financials: 0041 on Thursday morning.  Start.

Via Fordulo from the Neszmely region of Hungary.
Report Pokermonster March 30, 2013 11:05 PM GMT
Session end.
Report Money Tree cost me thousands!! March 31, 2013 11:39 PM BST
So thread asks a question on 19/3/2013 and by 1/4/2013 we only ave April fool contenders
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