Not necessarily, but if a bank goes down, which is not a rare thing, your money is not protected. If there is say an inkling that markets are going to tumble, inflation, etc, all it takes is a run on a bank for it to drop. If it does not get bought out AND have that money guaranteed, there is no government arm to financially back the catastrophic losses national banks can have. Local banks are smaller in footprint but still can rely on FDIC in the case of fukkery.how would you expect the banks to operate without these protections? you think the banks would just straight up uproot our checking and savings accounts?
Its bigger than the bank goofing, its insolvency taking your money that is the fear.