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How about all depositors, whatever their nationality, get saved up to a certain amount (say 100k to be ridiculously generous). Then you save as many of the rest as you can in some order that derives from whatever your strategic bargaining plan is as Jake outlined.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake
by talos (mihalis at gmail dot com) on Fri Feb 4th, 2011 at 06:02:45 PM EST
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There have been suggestions that Ireland doesn't even have enough money to guarantee all deposits up to 100k. I find that hard to believe, but it's within the realm of possibility, given what we've seen worldwide in the last 3 1/2 years.

Keynesianism is intellectually hard, as evidenced by the inability of many trained economists to get it - Paul Krugman
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Feb 4th, 2011 at 06:10:55 PM EST
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