The collection, so far.
Each documentary opens a numbered file. Same standard, same structure, so the archive gets more useful with every one.
| No. | File | Status | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Where Your Money Is Protected Brazil 1990: the freeze, the originals and the rules that apply today | Free | six pages |
| 06 | The Lockdown File: Who Decides When Your Bank Money Comes Back Brazil 1990, Cyprus 2013, Silicon Valley Bank 2023, Banco Master 2025. The sources, the rules, and a 10-minute X-ray of where your own deposits stand. |
Available | 40 pp. |
Why we start with the fear, not the balance sheet.
1934 counts FDIC-insured banks only. Source: FDIC, A Brief History of Deposit Insurance.1
The banks didn't get healthier in twelve months. The line outside them disappeared. In March 2023 it came back, this time inside every customer's phone: $42 billion in withdrawal requests at Silicon Valley Bank in a single day.2
What we publish, and what we refuse to.
- Every number has an address. Value, primary source, link, and the date we checked it.
- Corrections are public. Find an error and we fix it, then send the new version to every reader.
- No sponsors from finance. No bank, broker or fund pays to appear in a file.
- No investment advice. We explain mechanisms. We don't recommend securities, issuers or institutions.
- No manufactured urgency. No countdown timers, no “price goes up tonight,” no invented testimonials.
Start with the film.
The next run won't warn you. The last ones left five clues.
Notes
- FDIC, “A Brief History of Deposit Insurance in the United States.” To be linked and date-stamped before publication.
- Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, “Review of the Federal Reserve's Supervision and Regulation of Silicon Valley Bank,” April 2023.