So we had a Bank of New York Mellon Corp institutional money market fund just fell below $1/share, meaning you can't get all your money out, and the $15 billion Putnam Prime Money Market Fund money market fund just shut down, because of "redemption pressures", i.e. a run on the bank.
If that weren't scary enough, The Reserve's Primary Fund is also below par, and includes retail as well as institutional investors:
Reserve Primary has both institutional and retail accounts. "This appears to be the first case where a retail investor will lose money in a money market fund." said Peter Crane, president of market research firm Crane Data in Westborough, Mass., though he called the situation "an anomaly."My investment advice: Buy stocks in safes, because people won't be trusting banks much longer.
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