Remember that scene at the beginning of It’s a Wonderful Life, where people are all desperately trying to get into the bank because if it fails before they get in, they lose their money? That’s what the FDIC prevents.

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    Don’t miss the trick here. The fake economy built on systemic fraud requires faith that it works for it to work. There is not enough physical money to account for the fictional numbers they throw around hourly on wall street. Its all going to collapse and they want to make sure you don’t have anything!

    This is the setup to the biggest heist in history! Whatever cash and assets the wealthy have will be safe in their vaults and overseas accounts. The decadent will dine while you starve. They will rebuild the US in their dystopic image even more so than it is now.

    General strike, crash the fake economy before they do. If wall street looses billions a day that will send a bigger shockwave than any dead CEO ever could. All they care about is money! You make that vanish and that’s power.

    Will you have to suffer, yes. That’s happening anyway. If not now you will be soon. If we do it soon enough it will be the imagery money that disappears and not your bank account. If we wait till after they rig the table it’ll be your loss not theirs.

    We don’t have much time.

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    This will isolate american banks on the long run. Who wants to make business with Leeman Brothers 2.0 (on an international scale)… or did I miss something?

    Edit: Spelling

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    MAGAts talk about Trump Derangement Syndrome but “conservatives” are still trying to destroy everything FDR helped create. That’s how far the FDIC goes back. This is why they want to do away with physical cash. Can’t have a run on a bank if your electronic money just suddenly disappears.

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      Yes, they take the very, very, very long view at destroying anything and everything that they think is costing them one red cent.

      The qons hold derangement syndrome towards a great many things going back decades…

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    Calling it now.

    2026 with the economy in free fall and the Republicans about to be voted out of office, he will make his move to fully seize control and declare martial law to stop elections.

    The moves they are talking about will absolutely destroy the economy and plunge us into the abyss.

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      2026 with the economy in free fall and the Republicans about to be voted out of office

      That won’t stop the Y’all Qaeda dumb fucks from doubling down and voting in a republican super majority in the house and senate.

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      I’m looking at the positive side of societal collapse. If there are no banks, then I don’t have to pay my mortgage.

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      I guess the positive is that if the economy is that fucked they might not have the money to resist the guillotine crazed hordes. Personally I think an ill measured rope would be the best method

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    How does this spin to customers?

    Okay, my checking account is no longer guaranteed in the event of your inevitable ambition-related collapse. Are you going to pay me speculative-investment class interest rates to justify me trusting you with the money? Or should I just go back to notes under the mattress?

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      23 hours ago

      Trump, probably, after talking to his new bestest advisor:

      Just move all your money into Dogecoin. It will be perfectly safe there.

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    18 hours ago

    How does this relate, if at all, with the insurance that the NCUA provides?

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    Remember that scene at the beginning of It’s a Wonderful Life, where people are all desperately trying to get into the bank because if it fails before they get in, they lose their money? That’s what the FDIC prevents.

    Yeah. FDIC insurance is the only reason each of us will be left with up to 100k 250k per bank account, if our banks go under. And most of us have less than 100k in savings, so it’s basically the US government saying

    Don’t worry, even if shit hits the fan, you will still have your money.

    I can’t even be bothered to hear how his minions are going to defend this one. It’s indefensible.

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    So they want us to buy crypto? If no bank and not enough cash to go around, digital money has to go somewhere right? Buy commodities? Cans of food/medical supplies to sell during the inevitable depression?

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    Please be aware folks, the FDIC only has one percent of the money needed to back up their guarantee. I repeat, that’s one percent. A single big bank failure would probably wipe out the FDIC entirely and not everybody would get their money.

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      21 hours ago

      Not even remotely true. In the 2008 financial crisis, between 2008 and 2012 , there were nearly 500 bank failures, and more than a trillion in assets involved and the FDIC covered every cent labeled to be covered.

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      You shut your fucking mouth about the FDIC. They are 100% industry funded, they supported Americans through the financial crisis so none of them lost a dime from failing banks, they effectively regulate a large number of banks to remediate financial stress before it results in a loss, and they have never taken a dime of taxpayer money.

      And they don’t need to hold 100% of the cash in banks, do you hear yourself with how stupid that is? They model how much cash they need from premiums to hold in reserve and they are very effective at it. Also, if losses increase they can levy a special premium on banks to shore up their liquidity position like they did in the financial crisis.

      The FDIC actually has a podcast series about how they managed the financial crisis in case you want to educate your ignorant ass. I taught a whole segment in it when I taught Commercial Banking.

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        Oh, I have no opinion on the political side of the article. I’m just saying that the FDIC has 1% of what they claim to ensure. Many people are absolutely reliant on the FDIC in case their bank were to ever fail. And that’s not a particularly fantastic idea.

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          So it sounds like you do have an opinion…? How can you say that you don’t have an opinion “on the political side” of things, and the in the next sentence give your opinion? Just… what?

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          No, that’s actually a pretty reasonable idea. Given that they’ve never lost a cent of money, can take more from the other banks if they need to, and are ultimately backed by the people who print the money.

          You don’t understand insurance or how the FDIC works.

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          And exactly how much do said banks have on hand to cover deposits? If there is no FDIC then banks should be required to have 100% of the required liquid cash to cover all deposits.

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            I agree. Banks should never lend people’s money unless those people specifically agree to have their money lent out. A bank should not be legally allowed to lend out your money and then say that you can come get your money whenever you want because it’s not true. If the bank specifically tells you that this product will lend your money out and that you cannot retrieve your money for X amount of time, that’s fine. That tells you the consumer that your money will be unavailable for this amount of time. And that makes you make the decision as to whether you can deal with that or not. If you can’t, you don’t use that product and don’t lend out the money.