When Cash Is Outlawed
Only Outlaws Will Have Cash
FEBRUARY 17, 2016 - BILL BONNER, CHAIRMAN, BONNER & PARTNERS
BILL BONNER'S DIARY
Harvard economist Larry Summers is a reliable source of claptrap. And a frequent spokesman for the Deep State.
To bring new readers up to speed, v**ers dont get a say in who runs the country. Instead, a shadow government of elites, cronies, lobbyists, bureaucrats, politicians, and zombies aka the Deep State is permanently in power. Put simply, it doesnt matter which party is in power; the Deep State rules.
Want to know what the Deep State is up to now? Read Larry Summers:
Its time to k**l the $100 bill, he wrote in the Washington Post (another reliable source of claptrap).
The Deep State wants you to use money it can easily control, tax, and confiscate. And paper currency is getting in its way
France has already banned residents from making cash t***sactions of 1,000 ($1,114) or more. Norway and Swedens biggest banks urge the outright abolition of cash. And there are plans at the highest levels of government in Israel, India, and China to remove cash from circulation.
Deutsche Bank CEO John Cryan predicts that cash probably wont exist 10 years from now.
And here is Mr. Summers in the Washington Post:
Illicit activities are facilitated when a million dollars weighs 2.2 pounds as with the 500 euro note rather than more than 50 pounds, as would be the case if the $20 bill was the high denomination note.
He proposes a global agreement to stop issuing notes worth more than say $50 or $100. Such an agreement would be as significant as anything else the G7 or G20 has done in years.
What makes Mr. Summers so confident that a ban on Ben Franklin's would be a good thing? It turns out that a research paper presented by Peter Sands, the former CEO of British Bank Standard Chartered, and published for the Harvard Kennedy School of Government says so. I***tic Ideas
High denomination notes, said the report, play little role in the functioning of the legitimate economy, yet a crucial role in the underground economy.
Mr. Sands should know about hiding money. While he was CEO, New Yorks top financial regulator threatened to strip Standard Chartered of its banking license. It claimed the bank schemed with the Iranian government to hide at least 60,000 illegal t***sactions involving at least $250 billion.
Here at the Diary, we dont pretend to know how to improve the world. We just know what we like. And we dont like other people telling us what to do.
Last year, we traveled all around the world. We went where we wanted to go. We did more or less what we wanted to do. Rarely did we feel that someone was bossing us around. But back in the USA
Take your belt off. Take your shoes off. Anything in your pockets? Take it out
Turn on lights. Fasten seat belts. Turn on windshield wipers.
This morning, walking through the park, we found this sign:
Curb Your Pets
Not just a courtesy to your neighbors
ITS THE LAW
People who insist you follow their ideas are always the same people whose ideas are i***tic.
Always do the opposite of what they tell you do, said a friend in France whose father was mayor of a small town during World War II.
There had been an incident. he explained. I think the Resistance had k**led a German soldier in the area. It was that time, late in the war, when the N**is were retaliating against civilians. So, they told my father to get everyone in town to assemble in the town square.
Instead, my father told everyone to run for the woods. They all did. They were lucky. They survived the war.
Electronic Dollars
And now, Mr. Summers wants us to bring our cash to the town square.
Instead of $100 bills, he wants to force us to use electronic notations faithfully recorded in a federally regulated bank.
Have you ever seen one of these electronic dollars, dear reader? We have not. We dont know what they look like. And were deeply suspicious of the whole thing.
The European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan along with central banks in Denmark, Sweden, and Switzerland have already imposed a negative interest rate tax on the accounts commercial banks hold with them (known as reserve accounts). These central banks are hoping banks will pass on this new tax to their customers.
This has already happened in Switzerland
As colleague Chris Lowe told Bonner & Partners Family Office members at our recent annual meeting in Rancho Santana in Nicaragua, Alternative Bank Schweiz (ABS) will begin charging a negative interest rate on customers deposits this year. ABS will levy an annual penalty of 0.125% on deposits of less than 100,000 Swiss francs ($101,173) and an annual penalty of 0.75% on deposits of more than 100,000 Swiss francs.
Essentially, ABS is charging its customers to keep their money on deposit. If you put $1 million in the bank, at 0.75% negative interest, you come back a year later, and you have $992,500 left. The bank has confiscated the other $7,500. At a negative rate of, say, 3%
you pay $30,000 a year just to keep your money on deposit. It sounds like a s**m
Governments abolish cash. You have no choice but to leave your savings on deposit. And youre forced to pay banks for storing your money.
Cash Outlaw
But wait
Banks are not really storing your money at all. A bank deposit is an IOU from your bank. There is no vault cash backing it up
just 1's and 0's on a database somewhere.
If the bank decides not to give you your money, youre out of luck. Its as though someone offers to store your cherry pie. Then he goes and eats the pie, promising to give you one just like it when you want it. He then has the cheek to charge you every month for storing the pie.
And when you want it, he wont be able to give it to you. I dont have any baking powder. Youll have to come back tomorrow, he says. Or, Im sorry. But the federal government has declared cherries an endangered species. Im not allowed to give you your pie back. It was very tasty, though. How much could this electronic pie be worth anyway
if you have to pay someone to eat it for you?
Imagine the automobile you have to pay someone to drive away. Or the rental unit you have to pay someone to live in. When you have to pay someone to take it off your hands, you can imagine how much your money is really worth.
And when your bank or the Deep State wants to confiscate your money, who will stop it? At least if you have your money in cold, hard cash, they will have to come and physically get it from you.
When it is in the bank existing as nothing but electronic account balances all they have to do is push a button.
Thats what happened in Cyprus. The banks were going to the wall. So, they confiscated deposits to help make themselves whole again.
Who will stop the same thing from happening in America? The judge the Deep State appointed? The police on the Deep States payroll? The politicians the Deep State bought and paid for?
When cash is outlawed
only outlaws will have cash. And we intend to be among them.
cSc61 wrote:
When Cash Is Outlawed
Only Outlaws Will Have Cash
FEBRUARY 17, 2016 - BILL BONNER, CHAIRMAN, BONNER & PARTNERS
BILL BONNER'S DIARY
Harvard economist Larry Summers is a reliable source of claptrap. And a frequent spokesman for the Deep State.
To bring new readers up to speed, v**ers dont get a say in who runs the country. Instead, a shadow government of elites, cronies, lobbyists, bureaucrats, politicians, and zombies aka the Deep State is permanently in power. Put simply, it doesnt matter which party is in power; the Deep State rules.
Want to know what the Deep State is up to now? Read Larry Summers:
Its time to k**l the $100 bill, he wrote in the Washington Post (another reliable source of claptrap).
The Deep State wants you to use money it can easily control, tax, and confiscate. And paper currency is getting in its way
France has already banned residents from making cash t***sactions of 1,000 ($1,114) or more. Norway and Swedens biggest banks urge the outright abolition of cash. And there are plans at the highest levels of government in Israel, India, and China to remove cash from circulation.
Deutsche Bank CEO John Cryan predicts that cash probably wont exist 10 years from now.
And here is Mr. Summers in the Washington Post:
Illicit activities are facilitated when a million dollars weighs 2.2 pounds as with the 500 euro note rather than more than 50 pounds, as would be the case if the $20 bill was the high denomination note.
He proposes a global agreement to stop issuing notes worth more than say $50 or $100. Such an agreement would be as significant as anything else the G7 or G20 has done in years.
What makes Mr. Summers so confident that a ban on Ben Franklin's would be a good thing? It turns out that a research paper presented by Peter Sands, the former CEO of British Bank Standard Chartered, and published for the Harvard Kennedy School of Government says so. I***tic Ideas
High denomination notes, said the report, play little role in the functioning of the legitimate economy, yet a crucial role in the underground economy.
Mr. Sands should know about hiding money. While he was CEO, New Yorks top financial regulator threatened to strip Standard Chartered of its banking license. It claimed the bank schemed with the Iranian government to hide at least 60,000 illegal t***sactions involving at least $250 billion.
Here at the Diary, we dont pretend to know how to improve the world. We just know what we like. And we dont like other people telling us what to do.
Last year, we traveled all around the world. We went where we wanted to go. We did more or less what we wanted to do. Rarely did we feel that someone was bossing us around. But back in the USA
Take your belt off. Take your shoes off. Anything in your pockets? Take it out
Turn on lights. Fasten seat belts. Turn on windshield wipers.
This morning, walking through the park, we found this sign:
Curb Your Pets
Not just a courtesy to your neighbors
ITS THE LAW
People who insist you follow their ideas are always the same people whose ideas are i***tic.
Always do the opposite of what they tell you do, said a friend in France whose father was mayor of a small town during World War II.
There had been an incident. he explained. I think the Resistance had k**led a German soldier in the area. It was that time, late in the war, when the N**is were retaliating against civilians. So, they told my father to get everyone in town to assemble in the town square.
Instead, my father told everyone to run for the woods. They all did. They were lucky. They survived the war.
Electronic Dollars
And now, Mr. Summers wants us to bring our cash to the town square.
Instead of $100 bills, he wants to force us to use electronic notations faithfully recorded in a federally regulated bank.
Have you ever seen one of these electronic dollars, dear reader? We have not. We dont know what they look like. And were deeply suspicious of the whole thing.
The European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan along with central banks in Denmark, Sweden, and Switzerland have already imposed a negative interest rate tax on the accounts commercial banks hold with them (known as reserve accounts). These central banks are hoping banks will pass on this new tax to their customers.
This has already happened in Switzerland
As colleague Chris Lowe told Bonner & Partners Family Office members at our recent annual meeting in Rancho Santana in Nicaragua, Alternative Bank Schweiz (ABS) will begin charging a negative interest rate on customers deposits this year. ABS will levy an annual penalty of 0.125% on deposits of less than 100,000 Swiss francs ($101,173) and an annual penalty of 0.75% on deposits of more than 100,000 Swiss francs.
Essentially, ABS is charging its customers to keep their money on deposit. If you put $1 million in the bank, at 0.75% negative interest, you come back a year later, and you have $992,500 left. The bank has confiscated the other $7,500. At a negative rate of, say, 3%
you pay $30,000 a year just to keep your money on deposit. It sounds like a s**m
Governments abolish cash. You have no choice but to leave your savings on deposit. And youre forced to pay banks for storing your money.
Cash Outlaw
But wait
Banks are not really storing your money at all. A bank deposit is an IOU from your bank. There is no vault cash backing it up
just 1's and 0's on a database somewhere.
If the bank decides not to give you your money, youre out of luck. Its as though someone offers to store your cherry pie. Then he goes and eats the pie, promising to give you one just like it when you want it. He then has the cheek to charge you every month for storing the pie.
And when you want it, he wont be able to give it to you. I dont have any baking powder. Youll have to come back tomorrow, he says. Or, Im sorry. But the federal government has declared cherries an endangered species. Im not allowed to give you your pie back. It was very tasty, though. How much could this electronic pie be worth anyway
if you have to pay someone to eat it for you?
Imagine the automobile you have to pay someone to drive away. Or the rental unit you have to pay someone to live in. When you have to pay someone to take it off your hands, you can imagine how much your money is really worth.
And when your bank or the Deep State wants to confiscate your money, who will stop it? At least if you have your money in cold, hard cash, they will have to come and physically get it from you.
When it is in the bank existing as nothing but electronic account balances all they have to do is push a button.
Thats what happened in Cyprus. The banks were going to the wall. So, they confiscated deposits to help make themselves whole again.
Who will stop the same thing from happening in America? The judge the Deep State appointed? The police on the Deep States payroll? The politicians the Deep State bought and paid for?
When cash is outlawed
only outlaws will have cash. And we intend to be among them.
When Cash Is Outlawed
Only Outlaws Will Have Cash... (
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Yes,and the outlaws start in the WH and trickle down
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