Here's a scary and little know detail about the banking industry.
Banks make loans based on leverage. For example, if you put $1000 in your savings account, you would think that the bank shouldn't be able to loan out more than $1000 based on this. Instead, the bank can loan out "your" $1000 many times over. In some cases, the leverage can exceed 100:1.
And to think that the NFA and CFTC locked US traders down to 50:1 on forex accounts, which are known to be risky. Yet your very safe savings account can be manipulated to levels far above and beyond this.
Add in what Cyprus did to account holders with the blessing of banks around Europe, and it's obvious that no normal bank is a truly safe place to put all your money.
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