A poll taken for the National Science Foundation found that 26% plan to take "a large amount" of money out the banks prior to Y2K and 16% plan to withdraw all their money.

-- thinkIcan (thinkIcan@make.it), June 10, 1999

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More writing on the wall!

-- thinkIcan (thinkIcan@make.it), June 10, 1999.

Link please? And is this a RECENT poll?

Inquiring minds (?) want to know...

-- Dennis (djolson@pressenter.com), June 10, 1999.

Think: I don't suppose you have a link to their webpage or the story?

-- newlurker (bcobur@yahoo.com), June 10, 1999.

Can you say collapse?

-- FLAME AWAY (BLehman202@aol.com), June 10, 1999.

I subscribe to Richard Maybury's "Early Warning Report". I got this little gem out of this report. The information comes "The Nation" an "AARP BULLETIN, April 1999"

-- thinkIcan (thinkIcan@make.it), June 10, 1999.

Yeah okay, I saw that in April/May. Check de Jager's site "news clippings" archives. It's probably there...

-- Dennis (djolson@pressenter.com), June 10, 1999.

The poll I think is from late December of 1998. The numbers just look very familar to the percentage that was being debated on at that time. Some were arguing that 16% would be the surefire number to collapse banks, while others were contending that the average demand account of individuals is less than $1000, making the possibility of bank collapses low if they had extra cash on hand.

The poll was released on January 1st from the Gallup group because they ran a article in my local newspaper with those numbers.

-- Pat (BAMECW@aol.com), June 10, 1999.

Pat --

Your figures just don't jibe or is that jive.

snip--Bennett, who also serves on the Senate Banking Committee, said that without such actions if even a fraction of Americans took $500 out of their credit unions, the result would be "a shortfall of credit unions overall of $16 billion."

And this is just Credit Unions, mind you, which are less susceptible to fractional banking disasters !! Spare change??

-- unspun@lright (mikeymac@uswest.net), June 10, 1999.

Pat-- No flame intended, I wasn't infering the figures were yours.

-- unspun@lright (mikeymac@uswest.net), June 10, 1999.

Not that it really matters, but could you please clarify? You said "A poll taken for the National Science Foundation found that 26% plan to take "a large amount" of money out the banks prior to Y2K and 16% plan to withdraw all their money."

Is the 16% INCLUDED in the 26%... or IN ADDITION to the 26%?

-- Linda (lwmb@psln.com), June 10, 1999.

26% of what? People at the NSF? The public?

Any event, I asked a program director at the NSF (a guy who's in charge of the organic chemistry division grants program) about what he knew about y2k. (Recall that NSF is one of the most prepared agencies according to unverifiable statistics.) As is often the case, he hadn't really thought much about it. I don't see any evidence that the non-computer-science-based scientific community is paying any attention at all. I chalk this off to intellectual arrogance

-- Dave (aaa@aaa.com), June 11, 1999.