Banned: Chase Bank Says You Can No Longer Store Cash or Precious Metals In Your Safe Deposit BoxBy Mac Slavo The whole idea made no sense, unless of course you are a big government stooge whose end-game is complete control over peoples assets and a desire to track the purchasing activities of consumers. Now, a new report from Paul Joseph Watson at Infowars.com suggests that this may well be the goal. It turns out that its not just Citigroup who wants cash to be banned. The content of a post over on the Collectors Universe message board suggests that we may be about to see a resurgence of the old fashioned method of stuffing bank notes under the mattress. Contents of the box: You agree not to store any cash or coins other than those found to have a collectible value. Another change is that signatures will no longer be accepted to access the box. The next time they go in they have to bring two forms of ID and they will be issued a four-digit pin number that will be used to access the box then and in the future. The letter, entitled Updated Safe Deposit Box Lease Agreement, was sent out to customers at the beginning of the month. Hide your wallets, the banksters are on the move, warns the Economic Policy Journal. The reasons for this new policy change should be clear and should come as no surprise.If you cant keep your cash or precious metals in a safe deposit box, what are you supposed to do with it? The answer is simple: Youre not supposed to have cash or gold. Youre supposed to keep your money in a zero-interest bearing account with your financial institution. Either that or stuffit under your mattress. And this is where the scam comes in. First, bank tellers have now been ordered by the government to report on individuals making suspicious withdrawals of cash so that police can then investigate and seize the funds. [W]e encourage those institutions to consider whether to take more action: specifically, to alert law enforcement authorities about the problem, who may be able to seize the funds, initiate an investigation, or take other proactive steps. So what exactly constitutes suspicious activity?Basically anything. Second, if they cant seize your money for lack of suspicious activity, theyll take a different route. You may think the money you have on deposit is insured by the FDIC, or that it is actually your money to begin with. But the cold hard fact is that once you deposit money at a financial institution it no longer belongs to you. And thats why assetmanager Ann Barnhardt recently warned that Americans should start taking their money out of banks becausenew legislation and regulations have ensured that all legal bank deposit protections are now officially gone. all customer funds in the United States are now the legal property of JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, BNYM, or whichever megabank is the counterparty on the loans the FCM or depository institution takes out in order to fund its mega-levered proprietary in-house trading desks. Now consider the implications of these new policies within the context of what JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said just a couple of weeks ago, when he warned that an even more volatile crisis than what we experienced in 2008 is on the horizon: The trigger to the next crisis will not be the same as the trigger to the last one but there will be another crisis. So what we have here is the CEO of the very company that restricts your safe deposit holdings and wants you to put your financial assets into their bank deposit system telling you that there will be another crisis. Of course, a majority of Americans believe the economy is doing good and over two-thirds of the country believes things will be even better a year now. If you thinkthings are great and the warning signs are nothing but fear mongering than we urge you to put everything you own into real estate, tech stocks and bank deposits. Because, as were sure youve been told, prices can only go up from here. If, however, you have a feeling that something just isnt right, then you might consider making plans to prepare for the financial crisis Jamie Dimon says is coming. Related reading: You can read more from Mac Slavo at his site SHTFplan.com, where this article first appeared. I was going to say not to trust safe deposit boxes, but I see theres already a link to a column under Related Reading. Chase is making quite a name for itself as worse even than other large banks. Dump them! Its actually not worth to be American citizen anymore. I stopped using safe deposit boxes period when I started reading about banks selling off the contents of them when they have not been accessed for a certain period of time without contacting the owner who lived in the same local for decades. This has happened many times. Besides if there is a bank holiday you wont be able to get any of your stuff anyway. I predict a surge in the sale of fireproof safes. The danger behind the idea of a cashless society, is that if natural disaster, war, or technical system collapse were to occur locally, regionally, or nationally people would have no other means of trade except to barter. This could have the potential to quickly cause civil unrest. Other than that it means the total end of privacy for purchase and of association. Therefore the only logical conclustion is that its a reckless idea, unless you want to be a totalitarian dictator of course. And by the way how the hell do they know what is in our safe deposit boxes unless they are robbing spying on us? They are trying to flush out everyones cash and metals because they are going to be moving in for the kill real soon. I think under your mattress would be a much safer place for your valuables than in one of the banksters safe deposit boxes. Leaving your stuff with them for safe keeping is like asking a fox to guard a chickens eggs. The banks have probably been snooping in everyones boxes already and taking inventory. 