Why Your Government Thinks You’re a Total Sucker

Silver Doctors

According to the Financial Times, there is now $3.6 TRILLION worth of government debt around the world with negative interest rates.
As the negative interest rate bandwagon continues to pick up steam, people WILL reach their breaking points. They’ll be forced into an “anywhere but a bank” option to hold their cash.
Think about it—if your bank is charging YOU interest to be a customer, wouldn’t you rather just rent a safety deposit box and stuff it full of cash? It would be a hell of a lot cheaper.
Now imagine dozens of people showing up to your bank demanding cash withdrawals.  Then dozens more. Hundreds. Thousands. Even more.
Most banks have razor thin liquidity—as a percentage of customer deposits, many Western banks hold less than 3% in cash equivalents… and an even smaller amount in physical currency.
If there were a sudden rush from people wanting to pull their money out of the banking system, whether to hold physical currency, precious metals, bitcoin, or any other alternative, it could cause a run on the banks.
And since most of them are in absolutely pitiful financial condition, they would absolutely collapse.
Perhaps most ironically, judging by their actions, governments and central banks are almost pushing for this to happen. They’re slashing deposit rates and bond yields, practically daring the public to take its money out.
They obviously think we’re a bunch of suckers. But they’re dead wrong.