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Google Trends Shows Why The Status Quo "Powers That Be" Should Be Scared. Very Scared
The volume of searches for the phrase 'Bank Run' has just hit an all-time high - higher now than even during the peak of the Lehman Brothers 'moment'. While English dominates the language choices, the Europeans (Dutch, Germans, and French) are extremely 'interested' as are the Chinese...but it appears the Singaporeans are running the most scared (as we noted here) is perhaps not surprising, followed by the Irish and the Americans - with Germany a disappointing 10th - perhaps they really do not care as much as everyone's bluff-calling hopes. It seems the fears of real 'bank runs' are becoming virtually 'viral' - not a good sign for the stability of the fictional-reserve-banking-dependent status quo.
Source: Google Trends
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the enlightened few. My wife hates reality and thinks i'm nuts. Funny though, she wants me to manage her finances. I guess most people just can't handle reality -----hence vicarious tv reality shows. Make the real unreal and propagate the self delusion.
Too funny, I looked at google search trends yesterday for "bank run."
I wil help out those numbers by googling bank run a few times today
Have you correlated it with "buy gold" and "buy a farm"? Maybe "How to make a tinfoil hat".
i actually hope people like you go 'all in' on treasurys, munis, and bonds.
but trolling you wouldn't be nearly as fun.
Hot Searches (USA)
1. jim parsons 2. chaka khan 3. etan patz 4. neil diamond 5. sixers 6. fantasia 7. memorial day 8. fleet week 9. times picayune 10. revenge season finale@drink or die
Chaka Khan is making a bank run!
shit ... I'm feeling a bit like a sheeple right now ... I googled "chaka kan" last night during American Idol to see how old she was (59) ...
You do realize you just admitted to watching American Idol on Zerohedge right?
Who the fuck is jim parsons?
Should probably google him to find out...
Please see my post above regarding rope. Please disregard it and use the rope now.
The only other thing you could have done to make it worse would be to have stated a burning desire to slurp up her clam. But at least then, you would have got an E for effort. Try Snookie for $500.00 , Alex
Very agile Howie, very agile.
Mud shark
Stage patter, "Do You Like My New Car" - Zappa & Mothers LIVE Fillmore East, w/Flo & Eddie.
Its always re assuring to see what rich cultural knowledge people gain from the intraweb
Good thing that an actor I've never heard of is so interesting now that we all know he likes the cawk.
I doubt the kind of people searching for those things have enough money in the bank to matter anyway...
Ok, I have 100K sterling in Bank Of Ireland, where should it be thats safe?
i see tumbleweeds.....cum on we are fucked end of if someone like BOI went down so does the UK then yada yada yada
For about a hundred bucks you can buy a water/fireproof safe at your local office supply big box store ... it doesn't care whether you fill it with 1 oz. bars or stacks of paper ...
Just be sure to lag bolt it to the wall AND the floor.
Water and fire will not be your biggest threats.
Cut the bottom out of a can of soup, empty it, and you can store sleeves of PMs, fiat, prescription meds, etc. in there mixed in your pantry. Thieves are going to go for the safe, but may leave the Campbell's. The old 'hidden in plain sight' trick.
Empty it before you cut the bottom out.
In my neck of the woods they are stealing toilet paper, pampers, and canned goods if they have the time.
Toilet paper and Pampers!?! No shit?
It is often listed in the news stories. I've seen booze, cartons of cigs, and coffee listed too. Someone is obviously helping out the wife or gf. Or maybe I am being sexist and it is Mom doing the burglary, dunno.
We're all extras in the Hunger Games these days.
I found it hard to believe myself, but there are parts/pockets of the world where people just don't steal. Amazing.
Exactly.
I am em-bare-assed I missed your joke the first time.
LMAO
Go into one of your closets and take a piece of base board off (I installed 5 1/2 inch tall for this reason), cut a hole in the drywall big enough to put your hand through. Put your stuff in the wall cavity. You usually get about 14-15 inches between studs per hole.
Replace baseboard to cover holes.
Unless they come into your house with scanners or metal detectors (IOW ordinary thieves) your PMs will still be hidden in the walls.
My grandfather did that during the Depression, but he died suddenly without telling anyone where he hid it. Don't make that mistake.
They are still finding stuff in the walls and floors from WW2 in Europe. But yeah, leave a note or something.
True dat. When I refurbished a house a few years ago, that was built just before the war, I found a pack of American ciggies at the base of the chimney and a bunch of resistance publications behind a fixed cabinet.
If you are referring to guineas or quid, out of the BofI. If you are referring to silver, out of the BofI. But I am incompetent to offer such advice.
I have six figures of cold hard greenbacks in my special hiding places and 200K of golden coins and a mini arsenal
daddy? is that you?
LOL, Ireland after Singapore. Explains why the Ireland's "chief begging officer" Enda Kenny is now daily giving the tape bombs that "Irish banks are solid, don't need more capital." Well, as everyone knows the banks are insolvent zombies supported by the robbed european tax payers money.
No Greece on the list and no Spain. Stick your money in either of those for safety.
that's because all those people are waiting in line at the banks, instead of surfing the web from home.
Didn't Tyler say that 25% of Greeks have never used the internet? They are so Fucked.
Not sure if this is the right time to close my bank accounts. I have all the bills paid online. Please convince me that I ACTUALLY DO need to close my account. My wife would think Im crazy. I know Im not!
I say keep it open but only have enough money in it for the next 1-2 weeks worth of bills. Remove the rest.
Don't have to close it, just leave enough to pay your monthly bills.
Don't. Why would you? If you are using the account to pay bills, why close it? Even if there is a bank run, here in the US, Zimbabwe Ben will make sure dollars flow. Might want to consider an alternate vehicle for your long term capital/savings, but as a short term place to put money to pay bills it's fine.
I'd also recommend switching to a credit union on general principle (with your general principal? lolz)
Enough enough it's 3pm put on your rally caps. America FK Yeah!
http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/13421/
What happened to not spiking the football Mr. O?
Hypocricy much?
That's some funny stuff.
can Bernake please hit that buy algorithm again today . I need something else to bitch about again.
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, man!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc5dg6oVXq0
One of the best covers I ever heard, ever. Poingant and prescient now more than ever.
How long shall they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?
We've got to fulfill the book.
I want a refund on those two minutes I spent
If anybody's interested, little Timmay Geithner is giving the commencement speech to this year's graduating class of John's Hopkins University SAIS school. The ceremony has started and Timmay should be flapping his jawls soon (after the Dean speaks). Here's the link to watch it live:
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/graduation
I wonder if Hankenstein "The Hank" Paulson will be in attendance? After all, he does have an office at the school.
I'm also wondering what would be the best word for drink shots. "Jobs" "recovery" "employment" and "opportunity" come to mind.....any ideas?
Hmmm. Just what this country needs: another couple thousand wet-behind-the-ears Keynesian Economists ready to head off to work at the World Bank and IMF; with the gate opened by none other than lil' Timmay himself. Whew, what a country....
It takes a long time to awake the general population from it's collective slumber.
Or a sudden lack of food.
The term bank run barely showed up in literature until the creation of what?
What is the Federal Reserve?
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=bank+run&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2
The term bank run barely showed up in literature until the creation of what?
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There were bank runs before the Fed-just not many because with gold standard the run ended in bankruptcy to the over extended bank-until--
eg: the 1907 panic which bankrupted several New York banks when people took out their gold-leaving banks with failed speculating positions-
It was because of that-the Fed was formed-to ensure no banker ever suffered losses again-
Funny how when a bank loses money (JPM) an investigation follows and something is put in place to correct the flaw
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The following year, Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., established and chaired a commission to investigate the crisis and propose future solutions, leading to the creation of the Federal Reserve System
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907
No more bank runs because of the Fed. Now we have "Country Runs."
+ 100 And it still ends in tears.
Singapore, yeah, everythings great, move your business there, live there, enjoy life, stand in bank run lines, ... Er...
Where will Jimmy Rogers go now?
Look at the top U.S. city on Bank Runs inquiries.
Home of our Goobers
Where are you going to run to?
No place is 'safe'.
That says it all. Best start preparing to make where you are.....safer and then eventually safe again. No sense running away. Prepare to stand up and fight.
"Old Potter is giving 50 cents on the dollar!"
How much do you need to get by?
All of it.
But I like Bailey Park.
Uncle Billy, where the hell did u put that money!!!
...i would guess if you entered "bank fun" over "bank run", the results would b the same...but, i wouldn't bank on it.
What about these searches?
Where do they rank?
Ron Paul
Honey Badger
Fuckin Obama
Revolution
Pussy
Gold
Charlie Sheene
Megan Fox
George's Bush
Alotta Fagina
Mike Hunt
Hangover Remedy
No increase in Google trends for gold and silver. We are not on the edge yet. USA is number 1 for silver and number 6 for gold.
Washington DC leads the world in silver queries followed by Seattle.
No European union countries in top 10 for gold - that is a shocker.
Volume in Zero Hedge increasing nicely. Number 1 is US followed by Hong Kong.
Yeah, but look at Zero Hedge cities. Why the heck is Kensington, UK showing up as second?
Proximity to The City.
Probably just looking for the new iPhone game - bank run game. It's awesome.
Right, MDB?
I just googled it to do my part.
http://www.google.com/
Link to google. Nice touch. You'll get more assists than Rajon Rondo...
http://ourhistory.canadiens.com/player/Rejean-Houle
Does Eduardo Saverin know about this?
PPT propping up the futures before holiday weeekend. It's not obvious or anything. Of course everyone wants to be long going into the long weekend.
Is this the head-smashed-in buffalo moment, when we go running off a cliff, clear our FRN's out of the bank- crash and burn, to where the reset occurs, of a new currency?
What is the word prompt of the elite? Bank Holiday?
I just deployed a virus to link to folks e-mail lists and launch into a search for "Bank Run" from each e-mail IP address. Should get about 4 million fresh hits by midnight. Just tryin' to do my part to move the market.
(note to Big Brother: this is satire)
Last thing I Googled;
FartingMouthObamaDoll
just before it;
RomneyCaymanSecretAccounts
With the exception of monthly operating income and expenses (less than $10,000), I took EVERYTHING out of the banks when BAC had that brain fart of charging massive transaction fees on the little people last year.
I sleep very well now that all the family's liquid assets are really liquid; gold, silver, gemstones and cash. No closed bank branch, no empty ATM, no inaccessible safe deposit box to worry about.
If anyone wants to locate my compound, overcome all passive security, and engage a fanatically defended hard point then you are welcome to all the booty you can loot.
Take your money out of the bank before the run takes it from you. Put it in a bug out bag in a fire proof secret place(s).
You will sleep much better. Promise.
FWIW, be careful about not doing too much with the gems - most people can't tell a real stone from a fake wothout training and therefore would be loath to accept them as currency. IMHO.
Speaking of bank runs, I need to make one to get some more half dollars. Don't you just love free silver?
I keep just enough cash in my checking account to pay my bills on-line. The rest goes into real "stuff" like gold, silver, and other non-perishable necessities.
The bank asked why I closed my savings account some years back. I laughed at them. The were paying something like 14 basis points!
Why would anyone have a savings account in this day and age?
Stood in line at the bank once and got the runs right on the spot - BEST DAY EVER.
It is just insane that during these times on our planet they sell gold. I cannot even relate to it.
Hey Tyler and Zerohedge, before the wheels come flying off and the sociopath in chief hits the internet kill switch, I wanted to say thanks for putting this site together. I believe you and most of the people here may have rescued my sanity.
They won't hit it yet, I'm sure Kanye and Kardashian is still pretty high up there on the search....
Are they running from the bank to put money in stocks? Another end of day rally coming up....
thank you Bernake for just hitting that buy algorithm - I knew it was coming
you are a weiner!
That was a nice move in nasdaq on absolutely nothing. wow, at least use the slow ramp up algo.
ZH truly is in a bull market, i wish we could buy stock there instead of faceplant ... euh facebook...
You people all worry too much. At this rate your are going to have serious wrinkles.
Yes, but we have stockpiles of black-market Botox.
Best.Picture.Evar!
Are the numbers on the chart seasonally adjusted?
OK Little Timmay Geithner is taking the podium now to speak (if that's what you call it when he grumbles). I wonder if he is standing on a stack of phone books? To watch it live click on this link:
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/graduation
...and this will be my last post on the matter....thanks for your patience on this. I can't wait to hear what "advice" he gives to these new Keynesian Economists.
It's probably the contrarian microchip in my brain, but there was recently, in Michigan, a 'bank run'. Specifically this RIVER BANK RUN: http://www.teamjulianfoundation.com/team-julian-raises-8k-at-river-bank-run/
Google trend the phrase "River Bank Run". Charity, bitchez.
P.S. Google 'bank run, michigan' and it's this event that pops up. Way less exciting, I know.
P.P.S. Do you actually think that a vast majority of people are going to google 'bank run' before they go to their banks in the face of an imminent banking collapse or something? That doesn't make sense.
P.P.P.S. Do I get a prize for figuring this out?
Actually, I think it was more like they heard it on the news and had no idea what it was... Hasn't been a whole lof of them, here in the U.S. anyway
Bank runs? That is nothing that the Magic Market Fairy can't handle.
Anyways, did anyone catch American Idol last night?
Those charts stop over three months ago. What have the hits been doing since, one should wonder. No, my mistake--they are current--some vertical gridlines would be nice.
I know you guys have noticed this, but why is it lil Timmay cannot look anyone directly in the eye?
I was always warned about people like that when I was growing up. Good advice.
Aspergers
How about the search for; rank bun....??????????
ponzia! ponzia! ponzia!
100% ponzi.
french think "Bank run" means a marathon event organised by a bank, like the NY Marathon. Nobody understands run as "filer à l'anglais". Now that is running tricky.
BANK RUN
BANK RUN
BANK RUN
Imagine if you will a global network of data surveillance, its contents comprised of the records of activities, thoughts, associations, etc. of millions of people, and whose trends and stats can be known, analyzed, correlated, simulated and gamed in real-time. What would you do with that knowledge or the prospect of attaining it? I can think of a few evil things, and I consider myself a good person. Anyone else?
Try to fuck with other fuckers that I knew had this knowledge too.
Interesting and deliciously devious.
MsC - no one else has access like the NonSuchAgency. It must be kind of cosmic/metaphysical to watch and understand the flow.
That's why I said up thread, i wonder what they do when the see they are f'd??
they will be f'd when they lose control of the hair-space?
Just "Googled" bank runs, did my part. Sticking with Ixquick.
Ixquick.com (anonymous search engine)
Abine.com (do not track)
Anonymox.net (anonymizes your IP)
torproject.org (prevents anyone from learning your location or browsing habits)
Nice - added to Opera as default search engine.
"Googled" bank run, sweet.
You sometimes find yourself herded into the wrong run. Witness Bill Clinton, he came to Monaco on a charity or VIP event and ended up being photographed with some local chicks. It happened to be the hottest porn stars of the french cinema. They were organising near Monaco, at a venue close to the Cannes film fesitval, the "hot" academy awards of the year...And Good Ole Bill landed up on the photo with three of the top stars at that festival.
"I offered them cigars.... Too bad it was on the side walk. "
PHOTO Bill Clinton avec des stars du porno à Monaco | Afficher la photo - Yahoo! Actualités France
Photo-shop, and I am not sure all of them are female.
I am guessing "midget" doesn't translate the same thing in French porn - like to a specific part of the anatomy.
Wait - is that Monica on steriods?
Birds of a feather...fuck, er, fluck, ah, flock together...
Those bitchez all look like trannys! If that's the best the Frenchies got than I'm glad I'm an American! I'll take Tera Patrick after she got run over by a truck before those skanks!
BANK RUN BITCHEZ!
Use of skanks in sentence + 1
There are more people searching for things since they can't afford their cable tv bills. More people than ever don't watch TV or listen to radio while at home. But, they still have their far less expensive Internet connection.
Ooh! Ooh! How many hits do you think ZH is personally responsible for! This website is a prime promoter of the idea.
Prior to the spike? I don't follow your logic. Does ZH "Singapore Edition" have different content?
Societe Generale U.S. Representative on CNBC with Maria "G6" Bartiromo is denying that there are any outflows from Greece or Spain into French and German banks.
"I just returned from France and saw no evidence of increased deposits coming from Greece or Spain." As his eyes furtively searched the floor to his right.
LIAR!
The Societe Generale rep. is now talking about "fear" being the problem and a need for "rational" approaches.
BARF!
If I were Greek I wouldn't stick my money in France or Germany either for that matter: there's always that little word "contagion" that tugs at one's sleeve.
we need to remove this broken monetary banking system from our lifes and adopt a new means for money before we all get strip of ever last ounce of our wealth we work so hard for. just google and read about the versus Zeus and SpyEye trojens and this will ether keep you off line or will make you run to the bank and extract your funds before it's strip away.
Heck, google "bank run". For what it's worth, it's just as good as voting.
The only reason bank run is so high on the search trends is because the entertainment news sites have been mentioning a greek bank run this week and the dumbass americans are using google to get the definition.
http://www.valuewalk.com/2012/05/john-taylor-bank-run-starting-in-spain-portugal-and-italy/
John Taylor: Bank Run Starting in Spain, Portugal and ItalyI have 200 in paper and 200 in coins. I'm safe.
I am bullish on the following commodities groups for investment. Toilet paper, cases of vodka, diesel fuel, large caliber fireworks, infra red chem lights, Rottweilers, coffee, seeds, grains, armor, firewood, books, and training. Lots of fucking training. The wife demands it. It's a tough job, but somebody's gotta do it. See you all on the other side of our Jim Morrison moment.
Wages have dropped from inflation, many have no job, credit cards are 28%, interest on deposits are NEGATIVE, and people have to eat and pay bills. Might as well spend the little hoard of cash on those "things" that one needs. Next we'll see bare shelves being reported. Use cash while it will still buy you something. We're just seeing a bank walk right now. Problem is every euro out means a 28 euro black hole needs to be filled by the banks.
Damn. I knew I made a mistake when I opened an account at an Internet bank without offices. Where do I run to join the fun? To the neares Stabucks to withdraw some latte?
The rest of the world citizens understand a coming fiat collapse while the US citizenry dance with the stars.
Serveral major banks in the US changed their service agreements with clients after the 2008 crash. There is now a clause in the terms that states that they may, at their choice, enable a emergency rule that will restrict withdrawls from your account. Something about having to submit a written request to withdraw funds... A lot of folks back then closed accounts and moved money to smaller local banks/credit unions.
Check your banks terms...
Consider the following....
Bank of America - Deposit Agreement
Q. Notice of Withdrawal
Federal regulations require us to retain the right to require all savings and all NOW account depositors to give seven days' written notice before making a withdrawal. It is unlikely, however, that we would require this notice.
-or-
We may require reasonable advance notice for large cash withdrawals. We may also refuse to honor a request to withdraw funds in cash from your account OR to cash a check (including a cashier's check or other official item) at a banking center if we believe that the amount is unreasonably large or that honoring the request would cause us an undue hardship or security risk. We may require that such withdrawals be made at one of our cash vaults by an armored courier, acceptable to us and at your sole risk and expense. We are not responsible for providing for your security in such transactions.
But they sure take it fast, don't they.
Watch out below. At least at some point. Will we trend higher first. Market direction with roadmap can help navigate the waters.
http://humblestudent777.blogspot.com/
Almost every paycheck issued in the developed world is frontrun by banks. You don't get paid by your employer, the bank pays you. If atms and bank branches close you are screwed. Always have a months cash on hand.
and 2 months of
food
water
toilet paper
and
booze
oh and a deck of cards.
Keep a couple month's worth if you can, and keep it in a peanut can. No more ATM fees from them screwing around with your checks or wasting gas driving to one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNGe7iK1O-4
Is this the, "sitting on the sidelines money" everyone keeps talking about that is going to send the economy to the moon once they see the recovery is real?
Can I still have a run on my bank if I'm overdrawn??