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Jim Rogers has made billions over the years betting on the direction of various national economies.
He's taken all this money out of the US.
He explains why.
The fractional reserve system;
Federal Deposit Insurance nominally protects depositors on the first $100,000 - now $250,000 - of losses in a bank failure.
There's just one problem with the system.
It's not funded adequately to deal with system-wide failure.
If this politician is to believed, we came very close to a total system-wide meltdown as he correctly admits, no one knows if this kind of a run will occur again and nothing is stopping it.