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- Plofkip commented Mar 21, 2013
Cyprus plans to protect its position as a banking centre by imposing capital controls? Er, how does that work?
Hearing: Cypriot banking bill has approval of troika to include capital outflow controls
- Plofkip commented Mar 19, 2013
The original CNBC articles reads: LOL, where does he think all that money came from?
How Russia Could Take Revenge Over Cyprus Deal
- Plofkip commented Mar 18, 2013
Switzerland and Cyprus are both suffering the negative effects of an overdeveloped off-shore banking industry (having long enjoyed the positive effects). Taxing a %age of all deposits (Cyprus) or applying negative interest rates on deposits ...
SNB will not exclude negative interest rates according to SNB's Moser
- Plofkip commented Mar 14, 2013
Hell. I had no idea gold and silver were priced in this way. Of course it's open to manipulation and of course, therefore, it has been manipulated. Amazing that it takes +/- one century for the new world to catch the old world out at this. Maybe I ...
Could gold be the next Libor scandal?
- Plofkip commented Mar 14, 2013
"The minimum exchange rate is an important instrument in avoiding an undesirable tightening of monetary conditions." That's my favorite bit. It's what the BoJ refers to as "exchange rate diplomacy". Central bank manipulates the exchange rate and ...
Swiss National Bank Monetary policy assessment