05/29/2015 - Financial Repression: The War on Cash

Mises Institute’s Dr. Joseph Salerno recently spoke .. Today cash is under attack like never before. Ultra low interest rates are the norm for commercial bank accounts. In Europe, as the ECB ventures into negative nominal interest rates, certain banks threaten to charge customers for depositing cash. Meanwhile, certain European bonds now pay negative yields, effectively turning them into insurance products rather than financial assets. And some economists now call for the outright abolition of cash, which shows just how far some will go in their crazed belief that economic prosperity can be commanded by forcing us to spend rather than save .. The War on Cash is real, it’s about financial repression & it will intensify .. 28 minutes

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