10 Signs That Reveal Mounting Panic In The Banking System

Yeah, there’s a lot more to this than in the article, too. All international wire transfers from all banks in the U.S. have been stopped. You have to use a money-wire-service now to move money anywhere, even $500. (heads-up, don’t go overseas without a real back-up plan!)

Secondly, as of January 1, 2014, all inactive accounts (with no activity on them for the past 12-months from outside activity) were CLOSED. My wife had a small checking account in another state, that she hadn’t touched in a couple of years, had a little over $100 in it, just to keep it open and service it. THE BANK CLOSED IT, and told her she would have to come-in to reinstate it! She went NUTS about how they took her money, called a dozen bank representatives, faxed tons of documents. In the end, I am sure she spent more than the $100 to prove it was actually her, and she still wanted the account. They DID reinstate the amount in there on 12-31-2013, but she was HOT about the whole issue.

The much greater question that I had over this was simple – IF AN ACCOUNT HAS $104 IN IT, and no activity for 13 months, what harm is it causing, and why do you, as a bank, feel the need to close the account, confiscate the funds, and claim you are doing it in the name of ‘security’? Makes no sense. If it were a drug or money laundering account, you’d be watching for big numbers rolling into it – thousands, millions of dollars. NOT some granny with $104 in the account that hasn’t been touched for a year! MAKES NO SENSE!

Other strange things have happened, as well. Two banks I have worked through in the past have recently been bought out and quietly merged, with absolutely NO media coverage about it at all. Not to mention the fact that you cannot draw out over X amount of cash at any time, for any reason, without setting off all kinds of Homeland Security warning bells and whistles.

I realized this the other day when I read about someone finding a lot of cash. My wife and I discussed it, and I told her, in joking, that if we found a million in a bag, we’d just have to slowly deposit it into a bunch of smaller accounts and move them together. BUT, in playing this out, a LOT of actual rules popped up when ‘hypothetically playing this out’ that I was unaware of, like the hidden CIA protocol for banks to report anyone making rapid deposits or withdrawals of amounts ‘out of character’ for the account, or above $2,000. Then, you have holding times, local, state and federal banking reportability that says they can report you for any reason, at any time.

HOW DO CRIMINALS DO IT? Obviously, you set up legitimate businesses, then you conduct lots of in-house ‘business’ that really doesn’t happen, for lots of cash. (like having a car wash that does 300 washes a day at $50 each, when in reality, you just turned the water on, flowed it down the drain into the sewer, and went to play golf).

In the end, and with no ‘criminal aspirations’ or experience of my own, the only result I could come up with was one of two paths – take cash to a gold seller, buy gold for cash, then launder through the gold in another state, and sell it (or silver, or platinum, or whatever); and the other avenue is just as funny – BUY BITCOINS! Yes, Bitcoins really do lend themselves to criminal activity – but getting into them, out of them, and not losing your shirt is a combination of ‘locating a dealer, buying the ‘drugs’ (bitcoins), then finding another dealer or broker, and selling the ‘drugs’ (bitcoins) without taking a loss due to unit fluctuations on the market.

Needless to say – it’s a sad day when finding a bag of one million dollars becomes a depressing burden to ‘keep it away from THE MAN’. If you think the government isn’t intrusively in our lives too far, you clearly have nothing they want. This is a sad statement for you, and a miserable statement about our greedy government, simultaneously.

Oh, well – they won’t let you leave this country anymore. If you have money, they want most of it before you leave. If you don’t have money, then chances are, they will find some way to keep you, or no one will take you anyhow. Your chances are far higher of ending up in prison, than ever leaving this nation. THAT is a fact. This, in itself points to the fact that there is something financially prosperous about keeping you here, or they wouldn’t do it. NO ONE does ANYTHING in America anymore, without profit being attached to it.