So It Begins: Bloomberg Op-Ed Calls For An End Of Cash! ‘666’ Approaching Rapidly!

• So It Begins: Bloomberg Op-Ed Calls For An End Of Cash
  by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com 
  In a moment of curious serendipity, a little over 90 minutes after we showed what a dystopian, centrally-planned, cashless society unleashed in a negative interest rate world would look like (“by forcing people and companies to convert their paper money into bank deposits, the hope is that they can be persuaded (coerced?) to spend that money rather than save it because those deposits will carry considerable costs”), and briefly after we laid out the countless recent warnings from “very serious people” that cash is evil and should be banned: 
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  * Norway’s Biggest Bank Demands Cash Ban 
  * Bank Of England Economist Calls For Cash Ban, Urges Negative Rates 
  * Citigroup’s Gold “Expert” Demands A Cash Ban 
  * Leading German Keynesian Economist Calls For Cash Ban 
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  … while warning to await a full-on coopted media assault about the dangers of cash “which is an anacrhonysm from a bygone era, and that the world will be so much better if only everyone dutifully exchanges the physical currency in their pocket for digital, traceable, and deletable 1s and 0s”, none other than Bloomberg issued an editorial Op-Ed in which it had one simple message:“Bring On the Cashless Future.”
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  For those who were amused by our warning that a cashless world may be coming, here is precisely why the warning was issued, in Bloomberg’s digital ink:
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