Submitted by Reggie Middleton
on 06/25/2012 10:25 -0400
I have outlined the upcoming EU bank runs up to two years in advance (see the many links below). Whenever one expects a bank run, the first things TPTB do is institute capital controls to stem said bank run – which of course makes the bank run that much more necessary to get your capital out – wash, rinse, repeat! Remember, by treaty, no country in the EMU may use capital controls without automatically being removed from the union. Well, do you believe that to be fact that will last? Yeah, I don’t either. Simply watch as the money bleeds from the banks and the bumbletrons attempt to staunch the flow using mechanisms that will simply exacerbate the flow. Even more incredible is the fact that even to this date, with the existence of publications such as BoomBustBlog, entire nations as well as their financial advisors, leaders, regulators and politictians STILL DO NOT EVEN COMPREHEND the nature of the modern bank run. You cannot stem the tide with capital controls, you can only exacerbate it.
Now, As Predicted Last Year, The French and the Greeks Are In A Race For The Biggest Bank Run!
On Saturday, 23 July 2011 I penned “The Anatomy Of A European Bank Run: Look At The Banking Situation BEFORE The Run Occurs!” wherein I went through both the motive and the mechanism of a European bank run, focusing on Greece and France as impetus.
You see, the problem with this bank holiday thing is that the real damaging bank run will not be staunced by the conventional bank holidays, et. al. because it is a counterparty run that will cause the damage, not depositors. TPTB in Europe don’t have the chops to stem this one, at least not from what I’ve seen. As for how that institutional bank run thing works, we excerpt “The Fuel Behind Institutional “Runs on the Bank” Burns Through Europe, Lehman-Style“:
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