I got it, but I am reconsidering even to have more than a current month expense in the bank.
You get 0% there and in a money market almost 5%.
I am sure that after I would post this, some money market would get off parity and money would flow backwards into the "safe" banks.
In fact, I penciled this scenario for sometime in the next 6-8 mo as banks cannot tolerate losing deposits to Treasury direct and money markets for too long.
In my country banks don't pay anything on deposits. I'm not sure why but it's like that. They will direct you to put money in various instruments, some are very common, government backed, but you can't put more than less than 1BTC at current prices. After that we're talking life insurance, bonds stocks etc.
But in the US banks pay something, and I was seeing that JPMorgan made tons of money lately, because they hiked the rates of mortgages like crazy, but increased the rates they pay on deposits to something ridiculous like 0.3%. If I was a customer I would be angry...
Banks have multi year/decade bonds purchased during the zero interest era. When interest rates go up, the price of existing bonds goes down. The banks holding these bonds
can't offer you a higher interest rate than the bonds on their balance sheets.
Obviously people and businesses start taking their fiat out of the bank and put it into the current >5% yielding bonds themselves. This forces the banks to sell their bonds at a loss. People with money still in the bank then start to get worried and take their fiat out as well: a bank run leading to bankruptcy, which these days can happen within minutes/hours/days.
TL;DR Buy bitcoin and be your own, full reserve, bank.
