The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: deepinthewoods on March 23, 2013, 07:12:25 pm
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http://www.eutimes.net/2013/03/russian-leader-warns-get-all-money-out-of-western-banks-now/ (http://www.eutimes.net/2013/03/russian-leader-warns-get-all-money-out-of-western-banks-now/)
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The eu wanted between 40% and 100% of all Cypriot deposits at first then the Cypriot pm warned friends etc and the word was out , so it was changed to 10% . But the people went mental and so here we are .
The big players in the stock market have been selling for at least 4 months now . The word was that the world economy was going to crash late march to july this year .
My guess is any day now !
The eu has stated that they don't rule out a money grab anywhere in the eu .
Anyone with savings is fecked . They have put in place restrictions to stop people taking cash out of the banks in Cyprus , my guess is they either have done or will do the same in the rest of the eu .
I have been watching this since before the olympics , i think it was that that may have delayed the grab , but it was being talked about then , although Cyprus wasn't specifically picked out .
The shite is piled up high and the fans are on .
Gas is about to run out too possibly , i wonder how long it will be till Russia switch the pipe off ?
All police leave has been cancelled and 3 x plod i know have said they are under call back orders . I know 2 x military who are under call back orders too . So something is about to kick off .
I do also know of other x plod and army who are not under call back orders though ?
Cyprus is being used as a test run i am sure .
Watch out for flying shite whatever you do mate , be prepared , this may be it !
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Sort of glad we used up all our savings and sort of glad we now have no shares but that all I am glad about.
Not sure about that strange Russian death today, I will read up on it but it smacks of 007 :innocent:
Oh dear, better get your amour on and dig in RUSS!!!!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/03/23/russia-boris-berezovsky.html (http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/03/23/russia-boris-berezovsky.html)
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Yep , got me shield and me norman helmet done , just need some chain mail now and i will be invincible !
At least if it does go tits up now , the warmer weather should be along soon ? Or maybe not ! lol.
Going by the laws of probability , things will carry on much as before . But probability is based on what has been before , and not on what may be tomorrow ! So that's that fecked too !
The only shares i have ever had are plough shares , i am not into money , it just allows 'them' to play you like a puppet . The feckers never have and never will play me .
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The feckers never have and never will play me .
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Nor me.....well maybe a bit......I never bought into store cards etc as I do not like my shopping habits known to all!!
BUT when you have money you are stuck and have to buy a house etc, If I had my time over I would spend spend spend then go bankrupt and start again, as we live we do not spend and still have no money while the clever peeps get into debut and then get is wipped out!!!!!!!
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Well , I've got nothing and they can't take that off me :excited:
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we are trying to see our house and the money from the sale WILL go into a bank, the money man from the TV, Martin something was saying the banks will not crash in UK as there are different circumstances here than in Greece, however, he added, if you do need to deposite a large sum,....split it into a few banks... :innocent: , that went through my mind as I tried to get to sleep last night :huff:
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They are welcome to my overdraft and my credit card. It's right that only the people who are relatively low on the financial ladder actually care about paying their debts. The big players don't give a s**t just go bankrupt and start again.
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'course, TPTB have been trying to get us to spend instead of save for years now - maybe this is just a conspiracy to encourage us to spend our savings?
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They are welcome to my overdraft and my credit card. It's right that only the people who are relatively low on the financial ladder actually care about paying their debts. The big players don't give a s**t just go bankrupt and start again.
We used to save but had to spend what we had, never owed money except for a small loan to buy a £3,000 car so I could actually go to work, the bad thing about that is that job did come with a car but was stopped just before I started and started again just a year after I left, that was when the bank sold me a PPI in the days I though banks were goodies, anyway, payed that off and got the PPI back BUT, I know of people that owe thousands but get it cleared "JUST LIKE THAT" I think telling your children to study, not lie, not cheat, commit crime and do not spend more than you earn maybe are not such good advice rather now, play the game but do not get caught cheating!! I saw a women out in the town the other day who had killed yes killed her partner and admitted it, she is now fully qualified in something or other, will get support and a home with new kitchen, insulated etc etc and be higher ranking in her well known criminal family circles!!!!!! ME? just poor but honest :rant:
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we are trying to see our house and the money from the sale WILL go into a bank, the money man from the TV, Martin something was saying the banks will not crash in UK as there are different circumstances here than in Greece, however, he added, if you do need to deposite a large sum,....split it into a few banks... :innocent: , that went through my mind as I tried to get to sleep last night :huff:
i was listening to that too. is this going to affect house sales at all? we are just about to go on the market and havent watched tv for months? :-[
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Its certainly a worry, not sure what we all are supposed to do :thinking: Then there is all the stuff about the gas running out!! phewwwwwww I hate to say this but Russ, its begining to look a lot like Christmas.... :huff: but without the gifts.......or the food or the fairy lights, just the panic buying and wondering where the money is going to come from to pay for it all!!
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we are trying to see our house and the money from the sale WILL go into a bank, the money man from the TV, Martin something was saying the banks will not crash in UK as there are different circumstances here than in Greece, however, he added, if you do need to deposite a large sum,....split it into a few banks... :innocent: , that went through my mind as I tried to get to sleep last night :huff:
If you have a house ready to offer on when yours is sold I doubt if the money will be in the bank long enough for any of them to get their hand on it. Make sure the entry dates match as closely as possible.
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I am not sure if the Uk media have covered the drive in other EU countries to identify people with overseas investments or assets.In France you must declare ALL bank accounts and overseas financial activity. Many of the rich have given up their French nationality becuase of high taxes and have moved to Belgium. Some have even taken Russian passports. Gerard Depardieu seems to be on the news a lot to defend his reasons for leaving France.
So the financial crisis mentioned above is not just restricted to the olive oil rich EU members and maybe the well informed rich have already moved money about. Certainly I know that there is a lot of very serious cash in London being converted into gems.
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not heard that from good old aunty.
linkys?
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We only moved once and kept the money in the bank for a while and that was our last move when we rented a lovely farm cottage with indoor water features, depending on what happens when we move we should exchange money the same day, still as long as it goes IN a bank it can be used, I doubt people are putting any in banks in Greece or Cyprus, not even for a min, better off giving it the local Mafia :innocent: :thinking: but thinking about it, I hope that its not on the books just yet in the UK :fc: Not sure how you can transfer large sums of money other than using banks or a some one with a violin case?
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there are lots of ways to convert cash and move it about. Just ask anyone working in high end stores in London.
Also - cars. When I lived in the Uk I sold a car to a chap and (his 3 enormous mates) from Cyprus. I agreed to the transaction on the condition that he be with me as we paid the holder full of cash into my bank. I had warned the bank who advised me not to do the deal. They set 3 people on counting and scanning the cash but gave up the scanning after a while and did the odd random check. It was a new and expensive car and these guys did not look like the types to drive it ( they were too big). My guess was that they were buying several cars to ship in one lot from Southampton.
Gold and gems worn as you leave the country are a simple way to move money too.
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Reminds me of once when my husband went into a shop to sort his bike out, I walked around the area for a while then stood outside a Bonsi shop with just one little tree in the window, I then saw 3 big bold blokes come out and check me out!! not sure if they were the shop keepers or customers but they certainly did not look like the type you mess with, this was in a back street in Northampton, never went back there again ::)
But then its knowing who to sell them too and getting the right price, I never seem to be good at selling for a profit, tied my hand at E Bay :innocent: , lots of people are investing in stuff these days!!!
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In France you must declare ALL bank accounts and overseas financial activity.
They've just passed a law in Spain to this effect - all property owned outwith Spain must be reported.
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i, am pretty aspirational, and i could fore see a time when i have 100k in a bank account, give me 5 yrs or so. i truly cannot believe that this has actually happened. as far as i can work out if youve got 100k in a cypriot bank account you just lost 30%.
as a normal citizen, your going to have trouble using even a debit card.
it has already been mentioned that this sets a precedent and if they can do it once they can do it again. they froze the banks ffs.
imagine if they froze the banks here.
maks right.
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France is after every Euro it can find - thus people giving up their nationality and becoming a "Belgium". If things do degenerate then will there be even more movement around Europe. As DITW says if you are aspirational and there is a threat of loosing your money then why not move or order some BITCOINS. Amazing that to be aspirational means becoming a Belgium ( oops - not PC - sorry).