25-06-2011, 03:16 PM
A lovely little detail from Switzerland
Sometimes its the little details that tell the story. Here's one such small detail that makes me think that I'm not the only person in Europe who thinks this crisis isn't over.
A friend of mine in the financial world in Switzerland, told me today that the Swiss banks have very nearly run out of bank deposit box space.
The last few weeks have seen such a torrent of wealthy Europeans wanting to get their 'assets' out of Europe and in to a Swiss bank that if you want a bank box in Zurich today, they will require that you have a minum of half a million swiss francs on deposit in the bank, before they will even consider you. That is how short of space they are.
Capital flight anyone?
What do you bet that a great many of those seeking deposit boxes are Greek, Italian and Spanish? We're all in this together? Of course we are.
http://golemxiv-credo.blogspot.com/2011/...rland.html
Sometimes its the little details that tell the story. Here's one such small detail that makes me think that I'm not the only person in Europe who thinks this crisis isn't over.
A friend of mine in the financial world in Switzerland, told me today that the Swiss banks have very nearly run out of bank deposit box space.
The last few weeks have seen such a torrent of wealthy Europeans wanting to get their 'assets' out of Europe and in to a Swiss bank that if you want a bank box in Zurich today, they will require that you have a minum of half a million swiss francs on deposit in the bank, before they will even consider you. That is how short of space they are.
Capital flight anyone?
What do you bet that a great many of those seeking deposit boxes are Greek, Italian and Spanish? We're all in this together? Of course we are.
http://golemxiv-credo.blogspot.com/2011/...rland.html
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"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.