Overstock (NASDAQ: OSTK) made waves recently when it was announced that they had stocked away 10 million in gold because, essentially, they don’t trust the financial system. Jonathan Johnson, their chairman, said as much in a recent speech, saying “we don’t trust the banks.” It doesn't’ get any clearer than that. Now, maybe he has good reason not to trust the banks. Maybe he doens’t trust the financial system as a whole. Maybe someone pulled a Tim Duncan on him in the past and jacked him for millions of dollars. We don’t know the whole story, but we do know that he is leading the charge, along with their CEO Patrick Byrne, to piss off the financial system in any way possible. Just the fact that they are talking about a collapse as being totally inevitable is a slap in the fact to the financial system that is (supposedly) doing it’s best to keep us stable. While this whole thing has gotten people talking about Overstock, I can’t imagine it bodes well for their future investing prospects, should they need Wall St. to help them out any any point. And I have heard rumblings that this could be the case, as Overstock has been devoting massive resources to a fintech project that might not pan out.