On a small and large scale, this stealing happens across all continents. Who will be help accountable? When and how, and by whom?
I sit here behind a desk in a fancy office and chair, trying to solve my own problems, and find it scary how much is going on around us that we simply can not control in our lifetime. It is beyond a big picture issue.
Seems like the surest path to happiness is still to focus on what counts, what is close to you, family and friends, and table the rest. We are only human.
"The best way to rob a bank is to own one." --William K. Black
The difference between this robbery and those that occur in countries with a longer history of private banking is that this one actually had an identifiable suspect.
I believe that no one will be held accountable, because no one ever has been held accountable for this type of crime. The most that ever happens is that torch-and-pitchfork murder-mobs lash out at whomever they can reach, such as the guillotine operators of The Terror (during the French Revolution).
Moldovan here. This run for quite a while in our national media and was charged in a political manner beyond what I imagined to be possible. These kind of things happen in Moldova and I got used to it after a while. I guess now the attention has something to do with European Association Agreement that put our country on someone's map and sight. It may for all this agitation to cause some real change though, at least in some limited degree, as the "actors" have to become a little bit more wary now.
Two paragraphs from TFA seem to contradict each other. The first seems normal, business-as-usual with big banks:
As a result, the state was forced to step in to bail the banks out - protecting depositors but creating a hole in the public finances equivalent to an eighth of GDP.
The second makes one wonder how the banks got paid twice for the same loans:
And in a final layer of obfuscation, they now owe all the money not to Banca Sociala, but to another UK-registered entity, Fortuna United LP, that's said to have bought the entire combined loan.
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[ 4.8 ms ] story [ 24.1 ms ] threadI sit here behind a desk in a fancy office and chair, trying to solve my own problems, and find it scary how much is going on around us that we simply can not control in our lifetime. It is beyond a big picture issue.
Seems like the surest path to happiness is still to focus on what counts, what is close to you, family and friends, and table the rest. We are only human.
The difference between this robbery and those that occur in countries with a longer history of private banking is that this one actually had an identifiable suspect.
I believe that no one will be held accountable, because no one ever has been held accountable for this type of crime. The most that ever happens is that torch-and-pitchfork murder-mobs lash out at whomever they can reach, such as the guillotine operators of The Terror (during the French Revolution).
As a result, the state was forced to step in to bail the banks out - protecting depositors but creating a hole in the public finances equivalent to an eighth of GDP.
The second makes one wonder how the banks got paid twice for the same loans:
And in a final layer of obfuscation, they now owe all the money not to Banca Sociala, but to another UK-registered entity, Fortuna United LP, that's said to have bought the entire combined loan.