A Polish guy walked into a bar... ... in Poland. He announced that he had withdrawn his entire fortune, 100,000 zlotys, from the bank, invested it in gold bars, and put them into a safe in his house. This was back when a zloty was worth something, so the other patrons immediately started to argue with him: ""You're an idiot! What if you get robbed? It's much safer in the bank."" ""The banks are about to fail,"" he responded. ""But they can't fail, they're backed by the Polish government!"" ""... which doesn't have so much as a grosz and you know it. The government will fall apart along with the banks."" ""Fair enough,"" the other patrons answered, ""but our friends the Russians will bail us out."" ""The Russian government isn't so stable either. What if it should collapse too?"" ""Well, wouldn't that be worth 100,000 zlotys?""