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March 19, 2013

Is Cyprus Joining the Party?


         With market gurus everywhere acting blindsided by the Cyprus Government’s decision to consider taxing bank savings accounts (at rates of 6.7% on balances under 100 thousand Euros and 9.9% on those over this level), most pundits screaming, “where did that come from?”,  MacDougal Post subscribers seem to stand alone in understanding that corporate elites in this country have been skimming their shareholders’ savings via the “stock option” racket since January 1, 1981.

         Turning the magic of long term compounding against us, systematic pilferage of  our savings each and every year can skim the whole amount of beginning shareholder wealth into the hired help's pockets inside a few decades. Apparently, the mathematically inclined in Cyprus’ Government have noticed.

         And one-upped them.  At rates around 9.9%, Cyprus Feds would be contemplating time frames that are well within a decade.  In less than 10 years, today's balance in a citizen's bank account would be seized in its entirety under that kind of grand larceny.

         People save to better their prospects over a long period of time.  What we're up against here is starting to look like the absolute destruction of that future by a ravaging pack of wild-eyed nihilists.