One of the ways to accomplish diversification of your portfolio is to not put all of your assets into a bank. There are several reasons for this, not the least of which is because, when times get tough, desperate governments raid bank accounts, as our editor, Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, has documented in reporting on the beginning of the Greek economic collapse a couple years ago.
Another reason to keep some assets out of banks is because the banking system is fraught with risk — risk that becomes more pronounced when governments go rogue, currencies devalue and economies crash.