deposit insurance

The Cyprus Bailout Solves Nothing

Do you still want to hold your money in Italian banks?  What about Spanish banks, or even in the United States?  The Cyprus bail-out, or bail-in as the EU likes to call it, has not put those questions to rest. They’ve become even more urgent now that the Troika – the alliance of European Union, European Central Bank, and IMF bureaucrats who spend their time going from one country bailout to another – have decided that depositors will be on the hook the next time a bank goes under.