Summary
Trump’s team is considering abolishing key banking regulators, including the FDIC and OCC, with plans to consolidate their functions under the Treasury Department.
Critics warn this could undermine public trust in banking, weaken deposit insurance protections, and risk another financial crisis.
The FDIC, established during the Great Depression, played a crucial role in managing the 2023 banking crisis.
Trump allies, backed by financial industry donors, are also targeting other consumer protections, reflecting sweeping deregulatory ambitions tied to Project 2025’s proposals.
Experts fear these moves could destabilize the economy.
2029 looking a lot like 1929.
Destabilize?
No, this is far worse. Big banks will just take your money. Credit Unions? I have no fucking idea.
I also can’t just walk into my bank and pull out $10k without raising all sorts of questions and concerns.
Jesus fuck.
When gambling on the failure of stocks is allowed you get stupid people trying to tear the whole thing down over a quick buck smh.
You should be able to pull out $10k fairly easily. When you go to spend $10k in cash, that’s where you’ll get a ton of resistance.
So keep bank receipts for large cash withdrawals.
Jesus fucking Christ on a stick CAN WE HAVE AT LEAST ONE YEAR WHERE THERE ISN’T SOME MAJOR FIXKING BULLSHIT. 😡
Might as well take a gamble and put all my money in bitcoin if it’s not FDIC insured
Now that is the steal of the century if he pulls it off.
Everyone ready for 1+ trillion to go missing?
Its not much of a gamble historically, as long as you’re willing to hold it for >5 years --the same advice holds for the stock market.
Where do the millionaires on Trump’s cabinet store their money? Because I know those greedy assholes dont want to loose their own bucks.
Everybody got a mattress?
I also hear coin hoards were once popular.
Of course, you could just invest in cheese.
coin hoards
Nickles would probably be the best bet right now.
Can someone please tell me which country has US-style nonprofit banks (credit unions) where I can store hundreds of thousands of dollars without monthly fees?
This is what people want. Nice high unemployment so labor costs for fast food and services are rock bottom.
Hey, I was driving home and I saw a mcmantion. Its going to be awesome when I buy it next week! So many loans! So little time!
Gee, what could possibly go wrong?
No way this can backfire
The 2020’s are looking to end like the 1920’s.
Not a recession, but a massive depression.
Except, considering how globalized the world economy is today, it would cause a complete total economic collapse on a global scale. You thought the great depression in the 1920s was bad? You have no idea how bad it can really get.
a complete total economic collapse on a global scale.
Of course it will all be peaceful, right, RIGHT?
It’s not just economic globalization, but the global ecosystem’s food chains are already starting to collapse thanks to climate change, and our factory farming systems are becoming increasingly prone to virulent diseases wiping out huge crops of both plants and animals. I wonder what happens when food prices skyrocket because half our food supply has been contaminated, and at the same time inflation explodes thanks to plain ol’ financial mismanagement
The 1920s depression was infamously global.
massive depression
Wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy ahead of the curve on this one.
You and me both, bud.
It’s gonna be baaaaad.
Trump (2 weeks after everything all the experts said would happen happens): Noun one knew how complicated banking is… my uncle, the MIT professor; huege brain was surprised this happened. An MIT professor didn’t think this could happen; speaking of things that happen, Batron… where is Batron? Where is, possibly, my “favorite” son? The crypto visionary. Let me tell you about the importance of crypto. Did you know this stuff is mined? Like from the earth? More valuable than water it is. Looking to back the usd by crypto and then by water. It’s free it just drops from the sky like “Bing, Bing Bing bing” might as well as be kaching!!
I fucking hate that what you wrote could be credibly said by him. I mean except how eloquently you put it lol
Wasn’t lack of regulation what caused the 2008 recession?
I think you misspelled “Poor people trying to live above their divinely ordained station!”
- American GOP and Finance Industry
Sort of. 2008 happened because new financial products called CDOs allowed shit loans to be turned into gold, and people insured that gold.
More regulation may have helped, but there was a very specific cause.
Yes, because the bankers made dumb deals for greedy profits. and then committed a lot of fraud.
I recommend the movie The Big Short (or the book its based on)
And supply-side-God willing, we can get back to there.
Can’t you just smell the freedumb?
In case you didn’t know, this has been animated/narrated, too:
I had no idea and thanks for this! :)
Look, some of us are going to make the sacrifice to supply-side-God. We gotta do everything to help the rich get richer. Cause fuck us plebs.
Yes but American voters don’t give a shit.
They found a way to blame it all on the poorz. Oh, and POC.
Yes
Of what I’ve read, regulation in the direction opposite from sane too.
They don’t care if they tank the dollar, it will make the assets in the Strategic Dogecoin Reserve that much more valuable.
I wonder how this will help China in their efforts to get off the dollar…
Pretty sure the plan is to actively tank the dollar
The question is, how do you bet against the US Economy and for whatever selfish fuckhead of a plan they have.
Buy Euros. Keep them in a European Bank.
As the person said below, move your currency out of the US dollar into something like gold or buy a house with a 30-year mortgage because you are basically shorting the dollar for a hard, tangible asset.
This assumes that you will have an income of something worth more than the US dollar to pay the mortgage with. If your income continues at the same amount of US$ then your mortgage payment will still cost you the same amount of income, regardless of how the global valuation of the US$ changes.
But the asset of the house itself would go up in value. I guess you do have to worry about the sales extortion when you go to sell it though. Which would not help very much. So I guess you’d end up at break even.
Well look, I’m not advocating for this coming government nor am I an economic expert. But in a vacuum one could impose tariffs on imported goods, tank the cost of labor in your own country, and force manufacturing back here, right? And in the long run, would be beneficial for local manufacturing instead of being so dependent on China. If it weren’t for the local oligarchy here I’d say it’s even a tough but fair plan for the economy. Knowing what we know, things will only get harder with no observable benefit for the working class as whatever improvement we manage to make will be sucked away by the ruling class. But the plan isn’t horseshit in a vacuum. Someone please feel free to tell me why I’m completely wrong as I’m not really speaking with too much conviction tbh
And in the long run, would be beneficial for local manufacturing instead of being so dependent on China…Knowing what we know, things will only get harder with no observable benefit for the working class
…and…
Someone please feel free to tell me why I’m completely wrong as I’m not really speaking with too much conviction tbh
Those tariffs would destroy our $1.95 trillion in exports from the USA because many of those are finished goods with input materials imported (and now tariffed to high heaven). source
Modern manufacturing doesn’t depend on hundreds of thousands of human bodies anymore. New manufacturing factories would be highly automated and only employ a tiny fraction of the now unemployed workforce to produce the same amount of goods as in years past.
“From 1960 to today, American steel mills have decreased from an average of 700,000 workers to just 83,000. And within the last 40 years, the productivity of labor has increased more than five times from approximately 10 man-hours per finished ton to under 2.” source
So we’re basically forfeiting a bunch of jobs related to and effected by procuring overseas input materials to gain a small fraction of manufacturing jobs? That just sounds like it will damage the economy and not bring it back up.
Exactly why everyone with a brain has been shouting that this is the worst possible idea.
Oh hell yeah, thats like 85% of things. I didnt know a brain was required to know that tbh with the sheer amount of visible foreign made items.
I believe this is what Milei is selling in Argentina. I believe your assessment is correct. They’re telling us that it will be hard in the short term, but it will be worth it in the long term. The thing is, they mean worth it for the owner class. Working class people will take the brunt of it and it will just stay awful.
Move your currency out of USD.
In my home country (we all know the economy is gonna keep getting worse so we bet against it by default) we buy foreign currency (including ironically USD), gold, electronics or other tangible assets that hold their value.
electronics
Those hold value?
At least in my country sort of (besides new models of course), because they’re all imported. It might be different in the US.
What country is that? As far as I know, anything electronic here in the U.S. tends to drop like a rock in value pretty much right at purchase time (just like cars - driving it off the lot usually results in a huge depreciation). With maybe a few exceptions, like when people are snapping up a bunch of some new item that is in short supply and reselling it for more than MSRP.
Egypt. Electronics here are tarriffed to high hell if that matters.
Edit: Okay I should probably explain a bit more. In Egypt, because we import a lot of things (you can thank government mismanagement for this), the price of the Egyptian pound against foreign currency in general and the USD specifically controls the price of a lot of goods directly and literally everything indirectly. Therefore it’s usually a good idea to solidify your money in an asset whose price will rise with the USD. Usually you wanna buy USD, but that becomes less available day by day so some people bet on goods whose price will rise with the USD, like electronics (we have no domestic electronics makers) and gold. Rising foreign currency prices (well really falling EGP prices) are the driving force of inflation here so the fact that the USD itself will fall in value because of inflation doesn’t have much effect on the final calculation.
Probably crypto, unfortunately.
Not gonna lie. If the FDIC goes, I withdraw immediately.
And do what? It’s literally not possible to live without a bank account any more. They’ve actively destroyed cash as a means of payment
Invest in crypto. Trump was they keynote at the bitcoin conference this year.
People are more worried about day to day living expenses than investment. I live in a major city and maybe 1% of the businesses accept crypto. Zero grocery stores do.
Those have the same custodial risk as a bank account. Not your keys, not your coins.
You keep hold of your keys. Only a small proportion of your assets are accessible by the payment providers.
What? Cash still works man, and probably will still work. They just made non-cash ways of spending money more convenient, which is why so many aren’t using cash anymore, but it won’t go anytime soon.
Or are you talking about something else I’m not thinking of?
To pay my rent I would have to take my paycheck physically to a bank, cash my check, use that cash to buy multiple money orders, and then mail those money orders. Keep in mind this has to be done early enough to be delivered before the 1st and that the bank is mostly open when I’m at work.
Have an “empty” account where you put only the money you need to transfer and do the transfer right after that.
So, in other words, don’t use cash?
For the things that require you to pay by transfer.
NYC Philly Denver San Francisco NJ DC
All these require businesses to accept cash. The only states where it was proposed and shut down was in red states; ND MS
“85% of sellers who accept cash and use the online payment processing service Square said they never plan to stop taking cash, according to Shelle Santana, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School who has been analyzing Square transaction data.”
Republicans don’t care about discriminating against unbanked people. Sounds like you probably live in a Republican hell hole
What point are you trying to make? Nothing you said addresses any of the barriers to using cash exclusively that I brought up. My landlord doesn’t live nearby so I can’t exactly just go hand him a massive wad of cash nor will my employer pay me in cash so I don’t have to get to a bank during business hours.
I live in California by the way.
You’re probably telling them something they’re already viscerally aware of.
If it looks like it’s on its way out soon I put a run on that bank like it’s dollar store pantihose
Didn’t a whole silicon valley bank just wipe out its customers savings by not being fdic insured
Apparently not. They managed to set themselves up in such a way that caused the failure, but the majority of depositors had over the $250,000 cap on FDIC insured assets.
