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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: William H Huebl who wrote (67341)	11/14/2003 7:34:11 AM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

That too. Actually, it's not a joke - they have been considering extraordinary measures - such as, actually charging interest for holding cash, both here and in Japan. You take $20 out, and when you put it back in the bank, the strip on the bill says it has been out for 2 years, and is only worth $19.50. Stores will stop accepting cash in that case. How would they know how much your $20 is now worth? I guess, they dropped that proposal -g- Of course, that measure comes on top of negative interest rates in the bank, so that you don't "cheat" the system by holding dollars in cash. I guess, if that ever happened, stores would just start accepting e-gold instead of dollars, and there would be a currency crisis. Dollars are supposed to be accepted, at least at home!