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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 02:42 PM Original message |
World’s Rich Are Hording $10 Trillion in Cash |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
1. They must have hit the Trifecta! |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:08 PM Response to Reply #1 |
20. And the warmonger kept on repeating it. |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:46 PM Response to Reply #20 |
32. Yes, I grew up in Houston and Phil Gramm was considered a Texas business genius. |
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theaocp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
2. Not sending out your money |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:27 PM Response to Reply #2 |
24. That's why ''Offshoring'' is supposed to be illegal. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
3. Definitions of capital strike on the Web: |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 02:58 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. And this administration did nothing to prevent it, even as they were explicitly told |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:21 PM Response to Reply #9 |
22. yes. so one can surmise that the long depression = a somewhat deliberate effort to suck |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:40 PM Response to Reply #22 |
29. And we mustn't forget the second half of the reason for instituting this system. |
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fasttense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 02:49 PM Response to Original message |
4. Well since the inheritance tax goes back into affect next year here in the US |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:39 PM Response to Reply #4 |
28. Certainly would speed the thought processes of the shallow minded and hard-hearted. |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
5. It's hardly likely |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:01 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. I think you need to learn the difference between investing and depositing. |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:35 PM Response to Reply #12 |
26. deposits falsify balance sheets? |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:42 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. New one on me too. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:50 PM Response to Reply #26 |
33. Why do you imagine that the banksters have "recovered" so well and so quickly? |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 07:20 PM Response to Reply #33 |
38. ah, so you mean the deposits provide legitimate cover for the false activity of banks? |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 04:37 PM Response to Reply #12 |
35. But, I think these millionaires are doing the wise thing in hiding their assets. |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 07:00 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. Restoring confidence should have been job one. |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
6. Don't worry wealthy people, keep you $10 trillion out of the market we will be giving Wall Street |
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SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 07:07 PM Response to Reply #6 |
37. Our SS money has already been handed out to Wall Str. through tax cuts for the rich bastards and |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 02:57 PM Response to Original message |
7. Sounds like they need a tax cut! |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 02:58 PM Response to Original message |
8. I'm sure discouragement of cash hoarding will be top on the IMF's list of austerity measures. |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 02:59 PM Response to Original message |
10. Where's that trickle when ya need it? |
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LiberalEsto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:07 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. Oh, there's a trickle all right |
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lpbk2713 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
11. I wonder if that figure includes ... |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:03 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Almost $9B. |
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lpbk2713 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:07 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. Just a small portion of that figure ... |
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Newest Reality (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:03 PM Response to Original message |
14. More tax breaks will do the trick, ey? |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:05 PM Response to Original message |
15. The downtrodden wealthy will rise against their poverty stricken owners! |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:06 PM Response to Original message |
16. Capturing these assets |
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walldude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:07 PM Original message |
"Cash"? |
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DemReadingDU (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 08:39 PM Response to Original message |
39. Exactly. There is only $829 billion in cash |
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walldude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
17. "Cash"? |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:13 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Yes, it's not actual cash. Cash is used to identify non-working liquidity. n/t |
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taught_me_patience (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:25 PM Response to Original message |
23. Fundamental priciple of finance |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
25. they're not "hoarding" it. they're simply not letting a bank's high-net-worth group manage it |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:41 PM Response to Reply #25 |
30. Good point. This IS a WSJ article/post... |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:36 PM Response to Original message |
27. Maybe they should be featured on that show Hoarders. |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:53 PM Response to Reply #27 |
34. Got the theme: David Crosby's ''What Are Their Names?'' |
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tomp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-15-10 07:33 AM Response to Original message |
40. ten trillion in savings and complaining about bad financial advice? |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-15-10 07:43 AM Response to Original message |
41. Of course they are - |
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Blue Owl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-15-10 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
42. The Have More's |
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AzDar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-15-10 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
43. K & R |
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