{"id":3673,"date":"2016-12-31T08:11:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T16:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=3673"},"modified":"2024-01-26T22:36:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T06:36:08","slug":"old-lady-denied-life-savings-in-old-banknotes-for-new-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/old-lady-denied-life-savings-in-old-banknotes-for-new-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Old lady denied exchanging life savings in old banknotes for new issue; could not prove innocence of money; dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ethel H\u00fclst had saved for some old-age luxury all her life, cash-in-mattress style, and wanted to exchange her old-issue-note savings for new-issue banknotes. Faced with demands of proving where her cash came from, she could not produce receipts that would have been older than a decade. The Central Bank denied her an exchange of issue, having her life savings expire into invalidity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Swedish Central Bank is in the middle of an exchange of issue, changing old-issue banknotes and coins for new issue. This is something that happens regularly in most or all monetary systems \u2013 an upgrading of the banknotes and coins in circulation, supposedly done via a fair and controlled process.<\/p>\n<p>But when Ethel H\u00fclst, 91, tried to exchange her life savings in cash of 108,450 Swedish krona ($12,000; \u20ac11,300), she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svt.se\/nyheter\/lokalt\/skane\/91-arig-kvinna-vagras-losa-in-sina-sedlar\">was<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressen.se\/kvallsposten\/ethel-91-sparade-hela-livet--far-inte-vaxla-in\/\">denied<\/a> the new issue in exchange for her old notes. The justification was that she was unable to prove that the money had been <em>earned in an honest way<\/em>, as defined by the government, with the burden of proof on old Ethel.<\/p>\n<p>These are rules against ordinary Joes and Janes supposed to prevent money laundering and terrorism, which accomplish mostly nothing at the same time as the biggest banks are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2011\/apr\/03\/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs\">biggest perpetrators<\/a> (in the scale of billions-with-a-B) \u2013 the same banks that are supposed to enforce these petty rules onto small savers.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the rules weren\u2019t in place when Mrs. H\u00fclst started her life savings, so how could she possibly know she would have needed receipts from the time in question, twenty or forty or fifty years down the road? That was absolutely inconceivable at the time, that the government would not honor its own cash. (Something that, for one reason or other, has always been inconceivable \u2014 despite ample data points to the contrary.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was asked if she\u2019s been laundering money or involved in organized crime. I think our elderly, just like my mother, get rather offended by the government assuming them criminal\u201d, says Anders, her next of kin. \u201cShe never afforded herself anything, not even a hearing new hearing aid. Saving what was possible for a rainy day was almost a reflex.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, shortly after the bank had refused to honor her life savings, and the administrative court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressen.se\/kvallsposten\/ethel-91-sparade-hela-livet--far-inte-vaxla-in\/\">sided<\/a> with the bank in the matter of refusing her now-invalid banknotes, she passed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bank doesn\u2019t save statements longer than ten years\u201d, continues Anders, implying that it was a ridiculous rule to retroactively come up with a requirement for twenty-year-old receipts. \u201cWhen mom was told the bank no longer had any statements from the time in question, she gave up. She felt as though the government was stealing all her life savings, and that was it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her financial privacy was, paradoxically, done right. Saving in cash is not only private: with banks giving you zero interest \u2013 nil-and-zero risk premium for having the money in the possibly-insolvent bank \u2013 it\u2019s also financially sound to have physical control of your store of value. The key message is instead that central banks can\u2019t and shouldn\u2019t be trusted.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin users are not affected. Your privacy, finanical and otherwise, is your own responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethel H\u00fclst had saved for some old-age luxury all her life, cash-in-mattress style, and wanted to exchange her old-issue-note savings for new-issue banknotes. Faced with demands of proving where her cash came from, she could not produce receipts that would have been older than a decade. 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