Somebody... anybody.... post something positive.... are ANY banks ok?

[scheming daemons]

Reading another thread which seems to indicate that I might not be able to withdraw money from an ATM that is not my bank's???


Holy... fucking... shit.

[boobooday]

1. I heard that Goldman Sachs declined to get on the handbasket

to hell.

[GodlessBiker]

2. Watch more and more people start using the National Under My Mattress Bank.

[DangerDave921]

3. sperm banks are still safe. eom

[bananas]

5. I take mine with me. nt

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. I keep mine under my mattress.

[ThomWV]

4. That is just a plain and simple stupid rumor.

And by the way the DOW is up 120 at the moment.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. I am betting on dead cat bounce

AGAIN

[truedelphi]

8. Yeah, we are all holding our collective breaths.

Or as Jay Leno said last night: Bush has come out with his economic reform package. And phase on of that package involves his leaving on Jan 20 2009.

[anarch]

9. "at the moment"

indeed.

[XemaSab]

10. My piggy bank

:(

[TomInTib]

11. I'm banking on Old Guitars

They never lose their value.

[cherokeeprogressive]

12. My Wells Fargo stock is up 2.67 or 7.99%

That was positive news to me.

[panader0]

13. I bank with Chase

I have 2 credit card accounts with them. I went in to pay one down to zero 8 months ago. Then I got a bill saying that they hadn't put my last months charges on the payoff and I owed 29 bucks plus late fees. In spite of my arguing, I had to pay it. That was 5 or 6 months ago. Then, last week, I got another 29 dollar charge on the account saying they had forgotten a late fee. I went to the bank, and it was really hard to keep my cool. I said it was robbery pure and simple. They made some calls and had the charge removed. I hate banks, doctors, lawyers, and republicans. (not hate, strongly dislike)

[damntexdem]

14. Yes, my piggybank is perfectly OK.

All right, maybe the plastic is chipped a little around the trap door -- but it will still hold money, so long as I leave the tape alone -- the tape that holds the trap door on.

;-)

[Lance_Boyle]

15. BB&T is in fine shape. n/t

[JoDog]

16. The points reward program

at National City is nice.

[Marie26]

17. Is Vanguard OK?

I haven't heard anything bad & they managed to avoid the mortgage mess, but I'm still a little worried.

[trof]

18. The Alabama Credit Union is just fine.

:-)

[SoCalDem]

19. If you have less than 100K per account (200K for joint account)

in an FDIC bank, you are fine...BUT

if your bank is in receivership/on the auction block/or taken over by the FDIC, it "may" close temporarily, or have long lines , or layoffs..

the hassle-factor may be the only impact you will feel..

we did remove our money from waMu, because I pay bills online, and was afraid that if they actually closed the place down for a few days, our payments might get waylaid in the process, or the online banking might have been disrupted during the switch-over..

we did NOT fear "losing" the money..