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As the title of this video suggests we are discussing Banking in Thailand yet again; not my favourite topic, but here we go. I thought of making this video after reading a recent article from the Bangkok Post, bangkokpost.com, the article is titled: Banks tighten digital checks to curb mule accounts. First off, this whole "mule account" thing, it reminds me of the term "money laundering" which has become ubiquitous now, but people forget that prior to 1987, it wasn't even a thing. It was created, that was legally created in 1987. And frankly, people prior to that time thought that they had a right to move their money around in privacy without a bunch of oversight and a bunch of scrutiny, and quite frankly, that was the better way of doing things. This undue influence across the board in Banking and Financial matters is just getting completely out of hand and this is on an international or supranational level; however you want to look at it. 

I mean OECD at the end of the day, is at the heart of this thing. They have come over here to Thailand and in my opinion just been nothing but undue influence. Meanwhile, you have got the World Economic Forum that wants us all to 'own nothing and be happy' so I guess tying us all down into a bunch of insane banking restrictions and all sorts of scrutiny and oversight I guess is a good way to start doing that. But again and to the point of this video, we are the customers at these Banks. Why are we being treated like criminals, presumptively too, and what gives you the right to do that? 

Quoting directly: "Bangkok Bank (BBL) recently announced holders of its e-Savings accounts would be required to maintain a minimum balance of 2,000 Baht. Customers would be unable to make withdrawals or transfers causing the account balance to fall below this threshold, with implementation schedule for April 9, 2026. However, the Bank revoked the measure on Tuesday after it's sparked widespread criticism on social media. Chaiyarit Anuchitworawong, Senior Executive Vice President of BBL, said in a statement the bank previously announced changes to the conditions for the two online deposit accounts: e:Savings and the Bualuang Extra Digital Savings Account." 

Again, they came out with this minimum balance requirement, just requirements and apropos of what? Why does there need to be a 2,000 Baht minimum balance? Why does that matter? And it sounds like people got kind of overwrought about it and they went ahead and reversed it. That's good to see. I'm getting overwrought about all of this stuff. I'm tired of this notion that they can freeze an account presumptively without any kind of due process. Just, "oh it's a mule account or it's whatever we say it is, or you received money from some account." You can't control who you receive money from. And then that can be the basis for the presumption that your account gets frozen? That's ridiculous. Really, without sort of getting too hyperbolic here, my hope is cooler heads are going to prevail on some of this, as has happened in this instance where they said, "yeah, yeah, we're going to not do that because people got upset about it". Because we are the customers, we don't have to be controlled just because we need to use money. And that seems to be at this point what everyone is trying to do.

There has been a massive push for this ever since COVID started. COVID started through the "Great Reset" at the behest of the World Economic Forum. You can go back and look at that; that's exactly what happened. And part and parcel of this was they were trying to roll out CBDC, Central Bank Digital Currencies. I remember in the first year of COVID back in 2020 when they were talking about "oh we have got to get rid of cash, because it's dirty and it can spread COVID." That's what all of this comes from. At the end of the day, they just want to create a totalitarian banking system across the world that's going to help no one, on any popular level, and honestly, it's bad economic policy. It will constrain liquidity, it will constrain the velocity of money, it basically will tighten up people's ability to do business, and as a result, they won't do business. Less business will get done, and less economic activity will occur. We will spiral, we will end up in sort of a negative feedback loop economically, and then we will all hear the politicians tell us how they need to do more overreach in order for that problem to be cured.

This is bad policy. I hope it gets reversed. I really am. Customers at these Banks should not be treated like criminals just because they want some modicum of privacy in their financial transactions.