WTF? Was this list put together by a cryogenically frozen retard?

RBS sold due to almost collapse:

http://business.scotsman.com/royalba...-as.4512636.jp

UBS on its knees:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/bu...wn-803619.html

A lot of commentators say UBS is next.

I hear a good bit of talk that US Bank is well run and solid.

The swiss banks of course

I have $43 in a Washington mutual checking account and I am thinking of moving a portion of it to the tree in the backyard and another portion under the mattress ... these days u gotta be diversified....


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RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland) has nothing to do with HBOS/Bank of Scotland. HBOS was bought by Lloyds TSB.

Austria has some of the best banking laws. Their institutions like Bank Austria or Raiffeisen Bank are rock solid. They have no problems with adult business, but they have high fees.

However, many Swiss, Austrian and EU banks won't accept US citizens as customers. Try, it's not that easy to get an offshore account as a US person.

There are a couple of private banks in Uruguay that are great like LGT and HSBC and don't forget the banks in Hong Kong and Singapore. Their fundaments are build on gold and they are very conservative, but you better don't tell them about adult biz (they don't really want to know .. just don't use them to get payments from adult processors).

the banks that are buying the bankrupt banks right now ?

I'm thinking small credit union is the safest.

I don't think credit unions would make those sub prime loans.

The savings account is paid diviends and not interest so if my monthly statement
show dividends were down then that could be a heads up of any trouble.

Of course I'm guessing here, I don't really know.

Do your self a favor, and go with a credit union.

No more needs to be said, really. This just gave me a smirk.

Every single account in Norway is secured up to $400 000 .. got more? Just spread it over more accounts or more banks... interrest on the money would be around 7.1&#37; - 7.2% atm...

Awesome....... like Unreal Bank? I'll check it out.

7.1% is pretty good but i dont see how they can secure $400k

You sound a lot like that Peter Schiff guy who's been running around telling anyone who'll listen that the sky's falling and that we're all totally fucked; no matter what anybody does.

Think about it. If the two of you are right, it doesn't much matter what congress or the fed or anyone else does.

Right?

So what are you worried about?

Might as well enjoy that last cigarette before they tie your wrists and put your blindfold on.

here is an inside tip...

track back to the sources, retail lending is obvious but if you want to make an educated guess look at the history of a company from the wholesale (affiliate channel) history

when the banking institutions had more problems selling mbs investments to wall street, many of the banks pulled hard on the reigns on wholesale business to protect themselves due to the amount of fraud and to match mbs guidelines. they would only do retail because they had control of what was coming in and could regulate themselves. but many stayed in the game late because so many places were shutting down and they wanted to be the source for funding...first to go was pure wholesalers, investment firms and now as we are experiencing, retail banking hits

there are many banks that deal in the secondary market without a retail presence so it is hard to tell from a consumer standpoint...just knowing they didn't do RETAIL subprime is some info, check the history and ANY banking institution that kept correspondent and wholesale channels open is in deep shit, even if they closed late...CW, Indy, Wachovia (all victims). Most consumers that banked with large companies have confidence because for the most part retail lending divisions only do A-paper, "good loans" but most people do not know that the same banks that are strict have heavy investments/wholesale channels in subprime and Alt-A ex. most people felt safe with WAMU

If you look at this list on http://ml-implode.com you will see the fall as described, first the wholesale channel fails, then correspondent channel then finally the retail side will fall. Even though that list is not of big banks, many of the bigger banks and unions have investments in those subs and now the public is feeling the fallout

My safe list

BofA
Wells
USB
Chase

Wamu may fail still..

Well, I normally just pay out so I'm sure you'll like the other banks better :)

Not sure what you mean by the $400k though. Every banks that wants to operate in Norway is forced to secure that by law. Each and every bank + the government pays into a fund to make that work. Thank god they learned from the banking crisis in the 80s...

BofA seems to be the best bet

Fortis almost collapsed....

Cool bump....

:)