I have been withdrawling money from several bank accounts for several months now. I usually take out $300-$400 dollars at a wack. Just recently, one of the banks (B of A) will only allow me to withdrawal $100 at a time. Two, maybe three weeks ago, I could get $300 out. The interesting thing is, I have two accounts...and I could withdrawl $300 from each account per day. Now, I can only withdrawl $100 per day...total. Instead of $600 a day, I can only get $100 per day. Is this only in my area, or are others experiencing the same thing?

Shepherd

-- shepherd (mjmcinnes@aol.com), October 17, 1999

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The wife and I attempted to pull the majority of our savings today, (not a whole hellava lot of cash, 4 digits worth, low end,) JIC the market starts a bank/panic/tank on Monday. The teller wanted to know "why" we needed 'so much money' and that she would need authorization from the manager to release that amount of cash. The manager wanted to know as well "why?" I told her to (politely) to go jam herself into one of her own orifices. Needless to say, after an Hour, we got our cash, but not nearly as -nicely- or -quickly- as needed/wanted. Imagine howwit'll be if a run starts?

rut roh raggy!

-- Billy-Boy (Rakkasan@Yahoo.com), October 17, 1999.

I will only add my observation since I am in Canada. There are only really the "BIG 6" banks in the whole country (recently, CIBC bought up our biggest trust company). I myself have had no problem in my city withdrawing up to my max authorized by my ATM card.

But who's to say that won't change in a few days/weeks?

Should be interesting tomorrow with the GATA news conference early AM.

Wonder if CNBS will cover it? I'm sure they've already gotten their orders from TPTB.

To see what I mean, go back about 30 titles on the main post page and look for one that screams"GOLDBUGS!!"

-- profit_of_doom (doom@helltopay.ca), October 17, 1999.

Way to go Billy Boy; name, rank, serial#, don't give the bastiges nuthin'.........

-- cavscout (hunkered@my.bunker), October 17, 1999.

cavscout... when and where? Aco. 1-12Cav Ft. Hood '97-99

-- Billy Boy (Rakkasan@Yahoo.com), October 17, 1999.

Well, you might do yourself some harm by panicking, taking out some cash and then ooh so scary, be MUGGED! So this nice bank based on what you've said, so very worried about you and your personal safety, has set a new limit and can take pride in sparing you the stalking of a mugger. Kind of reminds you of Grandma and homemade fried chicken, doesn't it?

Shepherd, you know just by reading easily found material, that polls are revealing some homo sapiens have come to define "preparedness" with lots of cash. They are in a hysterical panic. They haven't a clue what the threat to their well being is or is not. These are not what some might define as "adults." They are not going to enter the bank, speak with the manager, and discuss their needs real or perceived. They are going to slither, adult children afraid of "authority," arrive at the ATM every single day pulling out more and more and more cash. There's no human contact at an ATM. No one can say an "opinion." No one can "look" at them in some meaningful way. No one can harrass the comfort they feel within their hysteria. They will perceive themselves to have a conviction, and anyone not in an agreement with that hallucinatory conviction is a threat to themselves and a threat to the security they feel in the moment of being so engulfed totally in the hallucination.

The western world has become so dangerously mundane on a daily basis it is very ripe for mass hysteria->a bank run. A person in the hallucination will perceive him or herself as very "smart." Personal righteousness will surface that "privacy wins out against the increasing violation of privacy->cash rules!" The individual will perceive him or herself as having saved him or herself against all odds of survival. And they most absolutely DO think they will satisfy their needs with that cash in an emergency crises. The store shelves are stripped, the scanners are not functioning, there is a shortage of gas, but themselves with that cash, will buy some food maybe on the "Black Market" and they haven't a clue how anyone even finds the "Black Market" or if one actually exists.

They're going to get their wish in that normacly is going to be redefined, but they haven't a clue what the transition period will be like, and an even less of a clue about what the new normalcy will be.

Every day they will be there at the ATM gutting out all they can. No one has to put up with their silly nonsense. The only beef anyone can have about B of A if it did indeed alter its cash withdrawal amount, is if it did not reduce the ATM withdrawal fee to match this new lowered limit.

It's all an irritating inconvience to you but to someone caught up in a hallucination it was a real brutal cold dose of water. No doubt someone is walking in dazed shock feeling terror in his or her throat. Not even intellectualizing he or she must go and stand in line at the bank and speak to a human teller, who has an opinion, and has facial expressions, and the hallucination is attacked by the simple fact that the other people are going about their normal banking transactons. How embarrassing to be the only one to arrive out of breath, sweaty, and with a sense of urgency.

Honestly and truly if I thought the transition to a different normacly involved survival by cash, I'd consider traveller cheques, credit cards, and money orders just as good. If those other alternatives "go" so also goes the currency.

-- Paula (chowbabe@pacbell.net), October 17, 1999.

Shepherd,

Here is a post, also regarding Bank of America, from another thread: "I requested an account balance on my master savings account at Bank of America and at the bottom of the receipt was a statement that the account was insured by FDIC only up to $ 1,000.

Anyone else finding interesting statements at the bottom of their bank receipts?

Monday, I will move our account to another bank."

-- Leslie (***@***.net), October 16, 1999.

-- (RUOK@yesiam.com), October 17, 1999.

Hey Paula, if you don't want your cash can I have it?

-- biker (y2kbiker@hotmail.com), October 17, 1999.

Who's cash is it? Perhaps possession is more comforting than the measly three or so % the babk pays anyway!!!

-- simple simon (simon5@mail.com), October 17, 1999.

Hey Billy Boy, the hubby was in the Cav at Ft. Hood from 1/90 to 1/93. When he went to Desert Storm, he was in the 1st of the ____??? Garsh, look at me, bad former Army wife, BAD! I can't even remember. He is out getting a haircut. He was then sent to Ft. Benning, GA from 1/93 till 7/96, when he decided he had been all he could be in the Army and said "See YA!" Before Ft. Hood, there was Germany, Ft. Campbell, Ft. Benning (the first time), the Sinai Peninsula, can't remember all of it, it is a blur.

Right about now I am reallly glad I have a spouse with all that outdoorsy type training. Hee hee. Funny, though, I am a better shot with a gun!!! ;-)

-- Preparing (preparing@home.com), October 17, 1999.

From: Y2K, ` la Carte by Dancr (pic), near Monterey, California

Leslie said: Here is a post, also regarding Bank of America, from another thread: "I requested an account balance on my master savings account at Bank of America and at the bottom of the receipt was a statement that the account was insured by FDIC only up to $ 1,000.

Heeeeey, now...! I thought it was $100,00! What's up with that?

-- Dancr (addy.available@my.webpage), October 18, 1999.