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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 years, 7 months ago
    And Why is this good?
    I've have never seen an ATM that let's you withdraw 1000's at a time but I guess they are around. I've read different articles on the war on cash, eliminating 100 and 50 dollar bills under the guise preventing criminal activity but I think this one at JP Morgan is because they are in deep do do...
    We will have to keep an eye on these activities.
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  • Posted by Ben_C 8 years, 7 months ago
    The problem is with ANY transfer of large amounts of funds. This happened to us this week when Bank of America put the screws to us. We sold property in another state and the title company sent us a large check. The check was promptly deposited but the funds would not be available to us for at least seven days. In effect we gave the bank an interest free loan for one week. If the reverse happened we would have been charged over $800.00 interest. We had planned on paying off some debt but couldn't because the funds were not available to us as anticipated. We have been with this bank for decades but will close our account and find a local bank with which to deal.
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    • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 8 years, 7 months ago
      They make 1% on the overnight rate. We had the same problem with a simple insurance payment: they sat on it for over a week, although we could see the timestamps showing that the check cleared in two days.
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    • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 7 months ago
      Number One get the hell out of BA and find a real bank. If you are retired or present military or government employee I suggest AFCU or Andrews Federal Credit Union in Maryland. They have no out of country limits nor fees except the $10K reporting requirement. If not have had good service with WF but do not consider any banks in the US to be safe.
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      • Posted by Mitch 8 years, 7 months ago
        BofA is the worst, I refuse to do business with them. When I was young, I moved to another city about 8 hours away from where I was living. Had about 5K to my name to get established and find a job and an apartment. BofA took the money out of my account due to fraud for three weeks while they investigated. When I pleaded that the money is my lively hood while I was getting established, their response to me was “We have three weeks to investigate and we are going to use every day of those three weeks before you can get your money back”.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 7 months ago
    It might be a good idea to figure out ways to secure wealth that cannot be touched by the state.
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    • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 8 years, 7 months ago
      Start?… I read Atlas Shrugged when I was 16. "He disappeared with the clothes on his back and whatever was in the safe in his office."
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      • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 7 months ago
        Go for it. I have managed to accumulate enough assets to last me until I assume room temperature. Unless, of course either Hillary or Bernie become president, in which case, I might just outlive my assetts. It will be a matter of being bare asseted.
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  • Posted by 8 years, 7 months ago
    I misplaced a comma, folks - sorry about that. It should have read, "This is it, good people!' Mea culpa. Sorry about that.

    Next will come the confiscation of guns. When they come for mine, I will do my damdest to take onr or two, at least, to the Judgment with me. It will be interesting to see how they attempt to justify their lives' actions with their own pathetic self-rightousness.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 7 months ago
    isn't this like Greece?? . no dollars besides milk money
    for you, even if you have millions. . it's a guard against
    a run on the bank -- and big brother is watching all of this. -- j
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  • Posted by RobertFl 8 years, 7 months ago
    Negative interest rates will be next.
    This is why I've been pulling excess cash out of my account.
    Bitcoin, gold, silver
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    • Posted by term2 8 years, 7 months ago
      We already have negative interest rates. I just did spring cleaning and found a $2 bill from the mid 60's when I was in college. Its now worth somewhere around 15-20 cents in purchasing power. If thats not negative interest rates, I dont know what is.
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    • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 8 years, 7 months ago
      Again, RobertR, while I appreciate your sentiment, the fact is that during the days of Gold Hard Money, banks charged people to store their money. Banks paid interest for some investments, but not all. That came about as a result of the very Federal Reserve you denounce.

      Nothing personal in this, RR, but I find it tiring that conservatives know so little about money, about the history and uses of money, about its forms and functions. The facts of history are lost to you.
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  • Posted by ISank 8 years, 7 months ago
    Well it makes sense if your the Leviathan, in today's day every non cash transaction is known by many groups.
    But the beast can't track the whores, the good drugs, the tips, plus more and that's gotta bug the hell out of the beast.

    Long Live Cash, especially a man named Johnny Cash
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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 8 years, 7 months ago
    Total nonsense.
    See my comment in a similar thread here:
    https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...

    How old are you? Do you not remember checks? You identified the payee and the amount, and the date, and you signed it. Were you terrified of Big Brother? Why not?

    I repeat that every banknote has a unique serial number: cash is not anonymous. It is not Big Brother that enslaves you: it is your lack of knowledge.

    In the days of gold money, to open a National Bank, you needed to put at least $25,000 in gold in the US Treasury. They gave you interest bearing bonds for that. In return, your bank could issue (lend) its own notes up to 90% of the value of the bonds. And still some banks failed. It's a business. Do you hate shoe stores that fail? Do you vilify the unsuccessful pharmacist who moves to another town to start over? Why do you hate bankers, calling them "banisters"?

    And in those glory days, business was not anonymous. In fact, if you read anything about capitalism whether Ayn Rand or Deirdre McCloskey, you must know that reputation was everything. Anonymous transactions are for criminals.
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    • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 7 months ago
      On the subject of checks Yes and I use them. When it's convenient to my purposes.

      I am careful of their use however as banks like BA use them to steal from clients.
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