aerius Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h3/Current/ The Federal Reserves Statistical Release, which lists how much money the banks & other financial institutions in the US have in reserve for various purposes. Of particular interest is the column marked "non-borrowed", which is basically the amount of money they have available for when customers make withdrawals, or in layman's terms, how much cash they have in the vault. Note that in the unadjusted tables, this number has gone negative. In other words, when you go withdraw money from the bank, that money ain't there, and your bank is now borrowing from the Federal Reserve Bank so that your transaction can go through. Can you say "bank run" if word of this gets out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Enigma Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 I keep it all in baggies under my bed.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postjack Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 I keep it all in baggies under my bed.... because you can't keep heroin in a bank? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smeggy Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 How do heroin futures look these days? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Enigma Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 How do heroin futures look these days? About as good as gold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slwiser Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 Everyone should know that banks are only required to have about 4% of deposits on hand by regulations. Everything else can go toward credit for others to purchase homes and such. Back in the 80s, the S&L problem was that a concern that S&Ls were not on the same level as banks when they only had to have about 2.5%. So Congress past a regulation requiring them to have the same on hands as banks within 18 months. Well some worked to achieve this level of funds while some knowing the Government would jump in to bale them out did nothing, these were the "problem" S&L of the 80s. This is a simplistic explanation of the S&L thing in the 80s but today it is the issue with sub-prime loans. If the government changes a regulation slightly it has a huge impact on business. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_hankins Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 I keep it all in baggies under my bed.... What was that shipping address again?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aerius Posted January 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 Everyone should know that banks are only required to have about 4% of deposits on hand by regulations. Everything else can go toward credit for others to purchase homes and such. It depends on how much checkable deposits the bank holds, for the first $7 million it's 0%, up to $48 mil it's 3%, and over that it's 10%. Overall, the Fed tries to keep the number at around 5%, but as of right now the adjusted figure is roughly 0.024%, and the raw numbers are in the negative. That ain't good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chekhonte Posted January 23, 2008 Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 Plus banks have secretly been giving us all AIDS infected bills and UFOs, bigfoot and 9-11 hoax. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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