Depends on which country's banks. So far I've lost more money to banks in my country than to my mattress, and so has almost everyone in Uruguay and Argentina:

Depends on which country's banks. So far I've lost more money to banks in my country than to my mattress, and so has almost everyone in Uruguay and Argentina: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corralito https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corralito Funds were forcibly converted to worthless bonds.