KEY POINTS
- Thousands of Americans will receive little or nothing from savings accounts that were locked during the collapse of fintech middleman Synapse.
- Customers believed the accounts were backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.
- CNBC spoke to a dozen customers caught in the predicament, people who have lost sums ranging from $7,000 to well over $200,000.
- While there’s not yet a full tally of those left shortchanged, at fintech Yotta alone, 13,725 customers say they are being offered a combined $11.8 million despite putting in $64.9 million in deposits.
Honestly I have a lot of sympathy for these people.
It’s one thing to invest in some moonshot crypto. It’s another to invest in something claiming to be FDIC insured. There’s also not a good way of verifying that information to the extent the victims would have needed to know something was amiss.
It seems like the FDIC was asleep at the wheel, and didn’t really know or give a shit that someone was leveraging them to mislead consumers. Instead of actually fixing the problem, they just washed their hands of it.
You can call Trump the devil all you want, but the system was broken long before he came on the scene.
The Reagan Revolution is more responsible for Trump than Trump and the crony oligarch masturbatory clown show we call an economy.
Imho, the last chance to save this faltering country would have been to reject the trickle down economic con, Reagan electorily, and Welch culturally.
There was just no coming back from doing that and convincing their former opposition to take the bribe money with them, today’s neoliberals.
The last 40 years have just been leftover momentum, playing pretend this country wasn’t over as anything but an oligarch exploitation trap.
The United States as a society irrevocably died around the time the first millennial was born. Twas unrepentant greed workshop that killed the beast.