Sunday, Feb 21, 2010

This used to be the norm

Business Insider: Citigroup Warns Customers It May Refuse To Allow Withdrawals

When banks were banks, and they actually lend money they had on deposit, then of course, you had to give noticed to withdraw money. The longer notice, the higher the interest rate. But banks stopped being banks and became money producers when they began printing money from thin air, using deposits as collateral for money production, and, for the lending of money borrowed at artificially low rates via interbank lending, using the central bank manipulated LIBOR. This of course is what has caused inflationary booms, leading to deflationary busts. It has devalued our currency to the point where only slave labor in China is willing to work for it. Expect more of this. Eventually, you will need to give 1year notice, as before, and then bank accounts become, as they were, corporate bonds.

Posted by freemanphil @ 08:31 PM (1553 views) Add Comment

8 Comments

1. freemanphil said...

So, they are saying that you may need 7 days notice to withdraw. I should have made that clear above.

Sunday, February 21, 2010 09:42PM Report Comment
 

2. fallingbuzzard said...

Smoke without fire

Sunday, February 21, 2010 11:40PM Report Comment
 

3. gone-to-colombia said...

Might be nothing, but then again, why would they make such a damaging statement if it was not required?
Seems to me borrowers have every benefit, while savers are treated like $hit.
There is going to be one hell of a payback!

Monday, February 22, 2010 12:07AM Report Comment
 

4. fallingbuzzard said...

BIt was required by FDIC when they shifted the status on accounts from unlimited protection to limited, but only for current accounts with promotional discounts in Texas, where Citibank is very poorly represented, and only from 1st April 2010, although not actually being implemented. So basically 200 hillbillies in some village in Texas had a T&C amended and were told about it. I suppose its better than we get in the UK, most of our T&Cs can change without us being told about it before it happens.

Monday, February 22, 2010 12:27AM Report Comment
 

5. mark said...

this is quite serious i would say as texas is having a mini boom at moment...

Monday, February 22, 2010 06:20AM Report Comment
 

6. mrflibble said...

I used to think old people who mistrusted banks and held money at home in shoe boxes and under the mattress where a little on the crazy side - I'm not so sure any more.

Monday, February 22, 2010 08:28AM Report Comment
 

7. d'oh said...

mrflibble @ 08:28AM

Me too...until I became one of them a month before NR came tumbling down.

Monday, February 22, 2010 10:10AM Report Comment
 

8. mark wadsworth said...

More rubbish here: "using deposits as collateral for money production"

They were using LOANS TO BORROWERS as collateral for DEPOSITS.

When people say "deposits" do they mean the money in their safes (or held in near cash) or the fact that a "deposit", in accounting terms is a LIABILITY. You cannot use a liability as collateral - you use ASSETS as collateral, and it is the loan to the borrower that is an asset.

But Karl Denninger reckons that this move from Citibank is a very bad thing indeed and recommends that people withdraw money from Citibank as soon as possible and close their accounts.

Monday, February 22, 2010 10:16AM Report Comment
 

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