#capital controls

A world built on fantasy!

Synthetic emotions in the form of pills, psychological warfare in the form of advertising, mind-altering chemicals in the form of food, brainwashing seminars in the form of media, controlled isolated bubbles in the form of social networks.

Real? You want to talk about reality?

We haven't lived in anything remotely close to it since the turn of the century.

We turned it off, took out the batteries, snacked on a bag of GMOs while we tossed the remnants in the ever-expanding dumpster of the human condition.

We live in branded houses trademarked by corporations built on bipolar numbers jumping up and down on digital displays, hypnotizing us into the biggest slumber mankind has ever seen.

You have to dig pretty deep, kiddo, before you can find anything real.

We live in a kingdom of bullshit, a kingdom you've lived in for far too long.

So don't tell me about not being real.

I am very real.

We are all together now, whether you like it or not.

Greece is lifting all remaining limits on the free movement of capital outside the country after four years of restrictions, signaling a further return to normality for the country’s economy.

Capital controls are “now a thing of the past,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told lawmakers in Athens on Monday, after announcing the move. The restrictions will officially be lifted on Sept. 1.

The controls were first imposed in June 2015 after former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras reached a standoff with creditors after announcing a referendum that sent depositors running to line up in front of ATMs.

The governor of the Bank of Greece, Yannis Stournaras, has said that Greek households still keep their money away from the banking system because they are afraid of their savings. He claimed that 12 to 14 billion euros are under mattresses and that businesses have another 10 billion euros abroad. He urged the money owners to bring it back to the country’s banks.

“We are talking about an amount between 12 and 14 billion euros,” Stournaras has been quoted by tanea, as saying adding “businesses hold abroad 10 billion euros.”

“The threat of Grexit does not exist anymore, so there is no reason not to bring their capital to Greece,” he stressed.

There is information that close to €1 billion is the amount of capital held abroad by only one of the companies that hold their capital outside the Greek banking system.

Stournaras appeals to these companies “to show patriotism” and to bring their money their money to Greece. At the same time, he sends a loud message to households the prefer  mattresses and flower pots to keep their savings than in the banks.

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