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    "title": "Cyprus Update: You Won't Vote The Way We Tell You? OK, Here's A Scheme That Doesn't Require A Vote",
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    "created": "2013-03-25 15:15:38 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>Germany, the ECB and rest of the EuroThieves did something innovative.</p>\n<p>They simply ignored Parliament and came up with a scheme that didn't require a vote.</p>\n<p>We'll see how this works out for them.</p>\n<p>This, incidentally, is exactly what happened here with GM. \u00c2\u00a0It was blatantly unlawful to protect the UAW's pension fund, which had no senior standing\u00c2\u00a0while trashing senior bondholders. \u00c2\u00a0The government did not care and did it anyway --\u00c2\u00a0and the courts permitted it.</p>\n<p>This has been the repeated\u00c2\u00a0means by which you are stolen from. \u00c2\u00a0When you enter into an investment, whether you make a deposit in a bank or buy a bond or something else, you are buying into a capital structure in a given place with a given and declared level of both risk and potential reward. \u00c2\u00a0You price that risk and your willingness to enter into the transaction with the full understanding of where you are in that capital structure.</p>\n<p>When that is unilaterally changed retroactively\u00c2\u00a0you are being stolen from. \u00c2\u00a0</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=219093\">Quick Update On Cyprus in [Market-Ticker]</a>.</p>\n"
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