Kevin Tuma’s cartoons explain issues clearly and for a change of pace today, I thought I would post a few cartoons. Enjoy.

tuma, congress, president obama, socialism

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I decided to post something refreshing – a look at America’s direction through time.  The John Birch Society has developed a short video that describes America’s direction.  What makes this video unique is the way history is recorded and how you see America.

Is America turning to Socialism?  Are we really a Democracy? Why is our nation a Republic? Why do elected Congressmen/women identify America as a Democracy? This short video clearly reveals who we are and where we are headed. The John Birch Society’s effort, in this short video, is admirable. Please share this video with your family and friends and feel free to download the video and send it to every elected representative. One thing I enjoyed hearing from an elected official is Governor elect Bob McDonnell said, “Eight months ago I applied for a job, Governor of Virginia, and you hired me. I will not forget I work for you.”  He is a rare individual – he understands who his employer is – We The People.

America

Video link is here.

Thank you to all our readers and those linking to this blog. I want to take this time to wish all of you and your family, a very Happy Thanksgiving. May we all reflect on God Almighty’s mercy, grace and truth towards mankind as a whole and may we thank our Great Creator for all his blessings bestowed upon us and our country. As George Washington, let us get on our knees and give thanks and ask for mercy and victory. Happy Thanksgiving.

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It appears the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is in not only selling securities but, the real estate market as well.  Here is a partial list of properties “FDIC” is selling:

715 Stephens  Saginaw, Michigan  A two unit converted house for

$ 7,500 or best offer

5516 Oldtown  Detroit, Michigan A single family residence 3 bedroom 1 bath and 1250 square feet for $ 8,500 or best offer

To see more properties and get particulars on the properties listed here go to FDIC property information here.

The question is, who regulates FDIC in securities trading and in real estate sales? What law provides FDIC the ability to engage in securities and property selling?

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Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida failed and on Friday, November 20, 2009 Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida, Fort Myers, FL was closed by the Florida Office of Financial Regulation, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was named Receiver.  No advance notice is given to the public when a financial institution is closed. One must ask, why?  If you are a depositor in a bank and your deposit exceeds the FDIC insured amount, why is there no advanced notice of a failing bank?  Is it because you could withdraw your funds and protect your assets?

The official notice states:

All deposit accounts, excluding certain brokered deposits, have been transferred to Central Bank, Stillwater, MN (“assuming institution”) and will be available immediately.  On Monday, November 23, 2009, the former Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida location will reopen as a branch of Central Bank.

Your transferred deposits will be separately insured from any accounts you may already have at Central Bank for six months after the failure of Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida. Checks that were drawn on Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida that did not clear before the institution closed will be honored as long as there are sufficient funds in the account.  For more information on deposit insurance, you may speak to an FDIC representative by calling 1-800-913-5370 or visit EDIE, the FDIC’s Electronic Deposit Insurance Estimator.

The Automated Teller Machines (ATM) and online service will remain available.

As of Monday, November 23, 2009, you may continue to use the services to which you previously had access, such as safe deposit boxes, night deposit boxes, wire services, etc.

Your checks will be processed as usual.  All outstanding checks will be paid against your available balance(s) as if no change had occurred.  Your new bank will contact you soon regarding any changes in the terms of your account.  If you have a problem with a merchant refusing to accept your check, please contact your branch office.  An account representative will clear up any confusion about the validity of your checks.

All interest accrued through Friday, November 20, 2009, will be paid at your same rate.  Central Bank will be reviewing rates.  You will be notified of any changes.

Your automatic direct deposit(s) and/or automatic withdrawal(s) will be transferred automatically to your new bank.  If you have any questions or special requests, you may contact a representative of your assuming institution at your branch office.

If you or your company provided a service or product, leased space, furniture, or equipment to Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida prior to Friday, November 20, 2009 and have not been paid, you may be entitled to a claim against the bank. If you provided a product to or a service for Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida prior to the bank’s failure for which you have not been paid and you have not received communication, please contact:

Please note: There are time limits for filing a claim, your claim must be filed on or before 2/25/2010.

See FDIC’s website here -  for more information.

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In plain English, a derivative in real estate means a value on real estate property that was decided upon various factors.  When the banks have a percentage of their portfolio in derivatives it means the banks have loans on real estate where the loan value is based upon various factors.  What are the various factors? Tranches are one example. A Tranche is a package of loans. The bottom line? Loans were made on real property not based on fair market appraisals but on how many loans are put into a package of loans (tranches) and a speculation of what the property value should or could be (derivative).  So why am I writing about this?

I read a very good article on World Net Daily. An interesting point I want to mention is quoted.

“According to the latest numbers from the Treasury Department, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs are holding the bag on 60 percent of the world’s derivatives – an astonishing $120 trillion between them, Still reports.

But instead of being held responsible for the collapse of the world economy, they were rewarded during the debacle by being allowed to absorb their primary competitors.”

“JPMorgan was the biggest winner in the government bailouts, after receiving a $25 billion loan, it gobbled up Bear Stearns‘ assets for about two cents on the dollar and then the assets of Washington Mutual – the nation’s largest failed bank – for less than a penny on the dollar. Goldman Sachs received approximately $50 billion, but both firms have now repaid the government.”

“According to Treasury figures at the end of June, Morgan held a staggering $80 trillion in derivative exposure, 50 times more than its $1.6 trillion in assets. Goldman Sachs is in an even more precarious condition. It holds $40 trillion in derivatives backed by assets of only $120 billion – a leverage of 333-to-1.

“To put this into perspective,” said Still, “The Gross Domestic Product of the United States is a mere $14 trillion. Even the world GDP is only $65 trillion, and the best estimate of the worth of everything in the world is only $200 trillion. That’s how big these numbers are.”

“Mega-investor Wayne Rogers is certainly not shy about identifying the problem. On “Cashing In” on the Fox News Channel Saturday, he put it this way: “Goldman Sachs is a conspiracy with the government. They are a fascist organization. They are supplying the guy who is the secretary of the Treasury, then he goes back to Goldman Sachs. Meantime he owns 800,000 shares of Goldman Sachs and Goldman Sachs gets bailed out by the government. The whole thing is outrageous. Let them go down.”

Read the rest of the article from World Net Daily here and there is a short four minute video you might find interesting.

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I read a question regarding the bank bailouts and thought it appropriate to use this opportunity as a teaching experience. The question is, “If the bank bailouts did not go through, who would have taken on the bad debt?”

When banks make loans to business (say auto dealers – they pay floor plan charges on each auto on their lot) If the car company went bankrupt, the bank would get pennies on the dollar in bankruptcy court. Same with banks making bad mortgage loans:
1. The bank knew better & did it anyway
2. The bank forecloses on the loan and if the homeowner filed bankruptcy, the bank gets pennies on the dollar
3. If the banks had too many bad loans, it shows the bank has poor business experience and they would file bankruptcy. Those they sold those “toxic” assets to would get pennies on the dollar.

Would you buy anything “toxic”? What does that say about your intelligence verses the bank’s intelligence?

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S & T Bank, based in Indiana, Pennsylvania has been downgraded by analysts and recommended a sell according to Bloomberg. S & T Bank rating is a ( D+ ) but it appears analysts see the need to sell and watch this blog to see if the bank indeed, fails.  Consider SunTrust Bank, their rating is a ( D- ) considering SunTrust Bank received about $2.2 billion.Ten major bank holding companies received bank bailouts

Among the 10 bank holding companies, Bank of America Corp. was judged in May to need $33.9 billion in additional capital under regulators’ criteria, the largest gap. Wells Fargo & Co.’s shortfall was $13.7 billion, while Citigroup Inc.’s was $5.5 billion. The Fed told banks in May to shore up reserve capital by early this month. The Federal Reserve Bank index is here.

Fifth Third Bancorp’s capital need was $1.1 billion, KeyCorp’s was $1.8 billion, PNC Financial Services Group Inc.’s was $600 million, Regions Financial Corp.’s was $2.5 billion and SunTrust Banks Inc.’s was $2.2 billion. GMAC LLC needed $11.5 billion, while Morgan Stanley’s assessment was $1.8 billion.

The bank holding companies appeared to tighten lending policies instead of lending more to help stop foreclosures. In addition, bank holding companies upped interest rates to consumers while the bank was getting the money near zero percent interest from the fed and the banks cut credit limits.  The banks claim they have paid back the bailout money. How have banks paid back taxpayers? Banks claim they have dropped their interest rates and loosened credit. Have you looked at your credit card changes? Higher interest rates and cut limits don’t show the banks claims.

What can you do to voice your displeasure with bank mismanagement? Let’s learn from the auto bailout. Customers stopped buying GM and Chrysler and Ford was rewarded for not taking bailout money with increased sales.  Looking for a bank that did not participate in the bank bailouts is an avenue many are taking.

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Many readers asked why the bank bailouts do not work, simple, they can’t. The bank bailouts or TARP was put into motion, as Congress said, to stimulate lending by banks to customers.  When President Bush started the bank bailouts and President Obama continued and expanded them to include auto companies, AIG, and now trying to take over health care shows elected officials out of control while we have taxation without representation.  When Congress is cowardly to stand up for freedom and our Constitution we see the need for Americans to downsize a bloated centralized power structure that does as they please.

The reason the bank bailouts cannot work is simple. Let’s suppose you are a bank and a customer comes to you for a loan, you have risk in lending to the person or company. As a bank, you notice the federal reserve is keeping interest rates near zero. Would you rather lend with risk to a customer or business or borrow money from the federal reserve (central bank) at zero percent interest and invest your loan hedging the stock market where you can make millions for yourself and others?  Banks have chosen the latter – don’t loan too much but use the TARP money to drive up the stock market as you (bank)  make a fortune. How do the banks look at customers then? As you can see, they cut credit limits on credit cards and up their interest into the 20% interest plus range.  Is that fair and the right thing to do?

Banks will say they have paid the TARP funds back – where’s my dividend check? Where did the banks get the money to pay the TARP funds back? From new lending? Or investing taxpayer dollars into the stock market creating another bubble. If you think this sounds off – then you will enjoy the new book The Dollar Meltdown. Charles explains in plain English what is going on and in an interview, Charles thinks it is too late to stop the downward spiral but shows you how to prepare to protect your assets and family.

Four things you’ll learn from The Dollar Meltdown:

WHERE WE ARE TODAY

You’ll get the whole story on America’s debt, both visible and hidden. You’ll learn how bailout bills and stimulus spending have dug us in an even deeper hole and what it means for the future.

HOW WE GOT INTO THIS MESS

You’ll learn to see old familiar patterns in some of the newest economic developments. This will help you judge the future by the past. The Dollar Meltdown lays out the real fundamentals about money and shows you exactly how the monetary system in the United States today has been corrupted so that you can avoid being victimized by it.

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

You’ll discover how the dollar meltdown happens, the most likely scenarios, and the role of foreign creditors like China. You’ll be prepared as the authorities react to economic problems of their own making, lurching from one “solution” to the next, deepening the crisis with their every move.  The dollar meltdown will change America and you’ll want to be ready for it when it comes.

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO

There is opportunity in every crisis and there are ways protect yourself and your family and to profit in the turbulent times ahead.

You see why the old rules don’t work anymore and you’ll get easy-to-understand investment advice for the new rules, specific investment recommendations that you can put to use right away to protect yourself and your family from the dollar meltdown.

Don’t wait until it’s too late! Order your copy of THE DOLLAR MELTDOWN HERE – Do it TODAY!

About Charles Goyette

Charles Goyette has long been known in Phoenix as “America’s Most Independent Talk Show Host!” With years of hands-on experience as an investment professional, he brings a welcome dimension of foresight and clarity to his political and economic commentary.  Goyette has been called on often to share his views with television audiences nationally on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and PBS, including on “The O’Reilly Factor,” the popular PBS program “NOW with Bill Moyers,” and as a frequent guest on “Lou Dobbs Tonight” on CNN, repeatedly warning before the current economic turmoil of the “economic calamity the Republicans and Democrats” were creating.

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There is an Alarion Bank spoof going on and our readers need to be warned of this spoof.  You may receive an email stating the following:

“Dear Alarion Bank Customer,

As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the system.
We recently contacted you after noticing an issue on your account.
We requested information from you for the following reason:

- We have observed activity in this account that is unusual or potentially high risk.

Please download the form attached to this email and open it in a web browser.
Once opened, you will be provided with steps to restore your account access.
We appreciate your understanding as we work to ensure account safety.

Sincerely,

©2009 Alarion Bank. All rights reserved.”

Included in this email is a file for you to download the “form”. I suggest if you receive one of these emails you should contact Alarion Bank at   1.888.900.9785 and inform them of the email. There is a high probability, the “form” the email wants you to download will hijack your computer and could infect your computer with a virus, rootkit or key logger. Alarion Bank is aware of the problem and has issued a Fraud Alert, see below:

Fraud Alert
Alarion Bank has received reports of a fraudulent “phishing” scam involving fake e-mail messages delivered on or about 11/06/2009 that appear to come from Alarion Bank, often with the subject line “Official Notification” or “Notification ID.” DO NOT RESPOND TO OR CLICK ANY LINKS IN THESE MESSAGES. Simply delete them.

One other point – Alarion Bank is located in Ocala, Florida and has a (D+) bank rating.

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Ten more banks were closed on Friday October 30, 2009.

October 2009 saw 20 banks fail. That makes the total failed banks for 2009 – 116.  Consider, 27 banks failed from the year 2000 through 2007  making an average of 3.9 bank failures per year. When TARP was passed by Congress and arm twisting began in Congress to pass massive bank bailout money to selected banks, bank failures skyrocketed in 2008 and 2009.

Was the bank bailout money designed to squeeze out smaller banks by bailing out  bigger banks whose CEO just happened to be politically connected?  Large bank stock is inching upwards and profits to upper-management through bonuses is becoming a trend. Consider 26 banks failed in 2008 and now 116 in 2009. Makes you wonder if the large banks were allowed to fail, maybe the smaller banks would not have failed, doesn’t it?

Add the following banks to the list of bank failures for 2009:

If you have investment products, in a bank, your investments are not insured by FDIC according to FDIC.  As usual, FDIC waits until Friday to close ten more banks.  One might ask, in whose best interest is it to wait until late on a Friday to close a bank?

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Total bank failures so far for 2009? 106  Three of the latest bank failures – Florida.  Partners Bank located in Naples, Florida  Hillcrest Bank, also in Naples, Florida and Flagship National Bank of Sarasota, Florida.  Minnesota and Wisconsin felt the bank failure sting as well. Riverview Community Bank located in Otsego, Minnesota and Bank of Elmwood in Racine, Wisconsin failed.

The bank failure list continues to grow in spite of Congress’ claim of saving banks through bailouts.  One might ask, ‘What banks did the American taxpayer bailout?  Is there a connection between the banks bailed out and Congress representatives? ‘  106 bank failures in ten months – AFTER – bank bailouts leads our readers to ask – What was the purpose of the bailout money?

Here is a copy of the press release.

First Federal Bank of Florida, Lake City, Florida, Assumes All of the Deposits of Flagship National Bank, Bradenton, Florida

Flagship National Bank, Bradenton, Florida, was closed today by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver. To protect the depositors, the FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with First Federal Bank of Florida, Lake City, Florida, to assume all of the deposits of Flagship National Bank.

The four branches of Flagship National Bank will reopen on Monday as branches of First Federal Bank of Florida. Depositors of Flagship National Bank will automatically become depositors of First Federal Bank of Florida. Deposits will continue to be insured by the FDIC, so there is no need for customers to change their banking relationship to retain their deposit insurance coverage. Customers should continue to use their existing branch until they receive notice from First Federal Bank of Florida that it has completed systems changes to allow other First Federal Bank of Florida branches to process their accounts as well.

This evening and over the weekend, depositors of Flagship National Bank can access their money by writing checks or using ATM or debit cards. Checks drawn on the bank will continue to be processed. Loan customers should continue to make their payments as usual.

As of August 31, 2009, Flagship National Bank had total assets of $190 million and total deposits of approximately $175 million. First Federal Bank of Florida did not pay the FDIC a premium for the deposits of Flagship National Bank. In addition to assuming all of the deposits of the failed bank, First Federal Bank of Florida agreed to purchase essentially all of the assets.

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San Joaquin Bank in Bakersfield, California failed October 16th and makes the 99th bank failure in 2009.  FDIC, in need of its own bailout, posted the following information:

San Joaquin Bank, Bakersfield, California, was closed today by the California Department of Financial Institutions, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver. FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with Citizens Business Bank, Ontario, California, to assume all of the deposits of San Joaquin Bank.

The five branches of San Joaquin Bank will reopen on Monday as branches of Citizens Business Bank. Depositors of San Joaquin Bank will automatically become depositors of Citizens Business Bank. Deposits will continue to be insured by the FDIC, so there is no need for customers to change their banking relationship to retain their deposit insurance coverage. Customers should continue to use their existing branch until they receive notice from Citizens Business Bank that it has completed systems changes to allow other Citizens Business Bank branches to process their accounts as well.

This evening and over the weekend, depositors of San Joaquin Bank can access their money by writing checks or using ATM or debit cards. Checks drawn on the bank will continue to be processed. Loan customers should continue to make their payments as usual.

As of September 29, 2009, San Joaquin Bank had total assets of $775 million and total deposits of approximately $631 million. Citizens Business Bank did not pay the FDIC a premium for the deposits of San Joaquin Bank. In addition to assuming all of the deposits of the failed bank, Citizens Business Bank agreed to purchase essentially all of the assets.

The FDIC and Citizens Business Bank entered into a loss-share transaction on approximately $683 million of San Joaquin Bank’s assets. Citizens Business Bank will share in the losses on the asset pools covered under the loss-share agreement. The loss-share arrangement is projected to maximize returns on the assets covered by keeping them in the private sector.

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I know this may be a bit off topic from my normal posts however, I have looked at the treaty and some other information and felt it necessary to save our Republic, this needed to be posted. The following information has been provided to me and is not my original work but the source is credible.

Below is a picture of President Barrack Hussein Obama appearing in Copenhagen and follow the story and download a copy of the treaty. Remember, a treaty can be signed by a president and America would be bound to the treaty. Reuters reports 3 scenarios here.

President Obama's 1st Copenhagen Trip

Obama’s last visit to Copenhagen didn’t work out so well for the USA.

The Minnesota Free Market Institute hosted an event at Bethel University in St. Paul on Wednesday evening. Keynote speaker Lord Christopher Monckton, former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, gave a scathing and lengthy presentation, complete with detailed charts, graphs, facts, and figures which culminated in the utter decimation of both the pop culture concept of global warming and the credible threat of any significant anthropomorphic climate change.

A detailed summary of Monckton’s presentation will be available here once compiled. However, a segment of his remarks justify immediate publication. If credible, the concern Monckton speaks to may well prove the single most important issue facing the American nation, bigger than health care, bigger than cap and trade, and worth every citizen’s focused attention.

Here were Monckton’s closing remarks, as dictated from my audio recording:

At [the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in] Copenhagen, this December, weeks away, a treaty will be signed. Your president will sign it. Most of the third world countries will sign it, because they think they’re going to get money out of it. Most of the left-wing regime from the European Union will rubber stamp it. Virtually nobody won’t sign it.

I read that treaty. And what it says is this, that a world government is going to be created. The word “government” actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity. The second purpose is the transfer of wealth from the countries of the West to third world countries, in satisfication of what is called, coyly, “climate debt” – because we’ve been burning CO2 and they haven’t. We’ve been screwing up the climate and they haven’t. And the third purpose of this new entity, this government, is enforcement.

How many of you think that the word “election” or “democracy” or “vote” or “ballot” occurs anywhere in the 200 pages of that treaty? Quite right, it doesn’t appear once. So, at last, the communists who piled out of the Berlin Wall and into the environmental movement, who took over Greenpeace so that my friends who funded it left within a year, because [the communists] captured it – Now the apotheosis as at hand. They are about to impose a communist world government on the world. You have a president who has very strong sympathies with that point of view. He’s going to sign it. He’ll sign anything. He’s a Nobel Peace Prize [winner]; of course he’ll sign it.

[laughter]

And the trouble is this; if that treaty is signed, if your Constitution says that it takes precedence over your Constitution (sic), and you can’t resign from that treaty unless you get agreement from all the other state parties – And because you’ll be the biggest paying country, they’re not going to let you out of it.

So, thank you, America. You were the beacon of freedom to the world. It is a privilege merely to stand on this soil of freedom while it is still free. But, in the next few weeks, unless you stop it, your president will sign your freedom, your democracy, and your humanity away forever. And neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect will have any power whatsoever to take it back. That is how serious it is. I’ve read the treaty. I’ve seen this stuff about [world] government and climate debt and enforcement. They are going to do this to you whether you like it or not.

But I think it is here, here in your great nation, which I so love and I so admire – it is here that perhaps, at this eleventh hour, at the fifty-ninth minute and fifty-ninth second, you will rise up and you will stop your president from signing that dreadful treaty, that purposeless treaty. For there is no problem with climate and, even if there were, an economic treaty does nothing to [help] it.

So I end by saying to you the words that Winston Churchill addressed to your president in the darkest hour before the dawn of freedom in the Second World War. He quoted from your great poet Longfellow:

Sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!

Skimming through the treaty, I came across verification of Monckton’s assessment of the new entity’s purpose:

38. The scheme for the new institutional arrangement under the Convention will be based on three basic pillars: government; facilitative mechanism; and financial mechanism, and the basic organization of which will include the following:

World Government (heading added)
a) The government will be ruled by the COP with the support of a new subsidiary body on adaptation, and of an Executive Board responsible for the management of the new funds and the related facilitative processes and bodies. The current Convention secretariat will operate as such, as appropriate.

To Redistribute Wealth (heading added)
b) The Convention’s financial mechanism will include a multilateral climate change fund including five windows: (a) an Adaptation window, (b) a Compensation window, to address loss and damage from climate change impacts [read: the "climate debt" Monckton refers to], including insurance, rehabilitation and compensatory components, © a Technology window; (d) a Mitigation window; and (e) a REDD window, to support a multi-phases process for positive forest incentives relating to REDD actions.

With Enforcement Authority (heading added)
c) The Convention’s facilitative mechanism will include: (a) work programmes for adaptation and mitigation; (b) a long-term REDD process; © a short-term technology action plan; (d) an expert group on adaptation established by the subsidiary body on adaptation, and expert groups on mitigation, technologies and on monitoring, reporting and verification; and (e) an international registry for the monitoring, reporting and verification of compliance of emission reduction commitments, and the transfer of technical and financial resources from developed countries to developing countries. The secretariat will provide technical and administrative support, including a new centre for information exchange [read; enforcement].

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Florida’s best banks aren’t based on service or location but on banking strength ratings.  When I looked at all (A) rated banks throughout the whole state of Florida, I found only five (A) rated banks and here they are:

Drummond Community Bank in Chiefland, Florida Rated (A+)

First Federal Bank in Lake City, Florida Rated (A)

Hillsboro Bank in Plant City, Florida Rated (A-)

First National in Mount Dora, Florida Rated (A-)

City National in Miami, Florida (A-)

Peoples Bank in Graceville, Florida Rated (A)

There are 22 banks in Florida rated in the (B) ratings. If you need more information on Florida banks, send a message.

Detective Krum

Could your bank safety deposit box be seized without reason?  It appears, according to Steve Quayle, one reason for the devaluation of the dollar and bank failures has an anterior motive – the introduction of a new currency, the North American Union new money and according to Steve Quayle, some larger Midwestern banks have sent  Steve a copy of the forms.

The New York Post reported the dollar loses reserve status to the yen and euro. This is not good news for Americans as the United States Congress continues to fleece America and Americans. Read the article here.

What will you do if you walk into your bank and ask to have access to your safety deposit box or account information and you are handed a letter like the Midwestern Banks have provided that says;

Dear (Bank deleted) Customer:

As you may have heard through the news media or learned via a recent visit to (bank deleted), regulations have been imposed limiting access to your financial accounts with our institution. Please understand the withdrawal limits imposed yesterday by governmental organizations including the Internal Revenue Service, F.D.I.C., Federal Reserve, as well as Executive Order (number withheld) signed by President Barack Obama on (date withheld) require us to limit you to a total combined weekly withdrawal of five hundred (500) dollars from one or a combination of all accounts held at (bank name deleted) every seven (7) business days until authorization is received from proper authorities to eliminate this restriction. Again, we apologize for this inconvenience and ask you to realize this situation is totally beyond our control. We regret the difficulty the withdrawal limits imposed on your checking, savings, IRA, and credit-line accounts at (bank deleted) have caused. We hope to continue to serve your banking needs as we truly value your patronage and ask for your understanding in this matter. Please contact us at our toll-free number, (number deleted), if we can provide further assistance.

Sincere yours,

(Name of bank president withheld)

There are several pictures for proposed “new” money available here. But a sample is below.