FDIC shuts down Silicon Valley Bank, crash incoming? Update: 2nd bank, Signature Bank in NY closed

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I swear some of you..will you please just read..

Did you not just read my response and still chose to type those words out...?

We printed out TRILLIONS for the pandemic response..yeah, those PPP loans, unemployment checks, etc. There was a COST to that. The resulting inflation we have NOW is because we PRINTED like mad men ONLY three years ago.

For the Federal Reserve, RIGHT NOW, to tame the inflation we have AT THIS MOMENT..they'll need to raise rates till the economy buckles, demand craters due to job losses, corporate earnings diminish and the such to create DEFLATION. We're already heading into an economic superstorm without this bullshyt with banks! If you ask the Federal Government to bail out banks AGAIN in this environment..it only amplifies the pain to the economy which will be felt IMMEDIATELY.

You already have BRICS challenging the USD and moving quickly to create a new monetary system to replace the current one ruled by the Dollar RIGHT NOW. You have China carefully, as discreetly as possible offloading their Treasury holdings month after month, the Saudis openly contemplating leaving the Petrodollar agreement and joining BRICS RIGHT NOW. There is tremendous pressure on the USD right now..you honestly think we would be able to backstop a collapse of our banking system AGAIN without international holders of our watered down dollars saying "fukk this, I'm cashing out."?

True, but it's not just that. A lot of companies, and people, took the opportunity to become highly leveraged during the historic low interest rates. As rates rise they feel the pinch. But increased rates are designed to curb spending and promote savings (simplistic characterisation). When the public do that there's not the projected income these companies expected so they struggle to service their debt, on which payments have likely increased if not a fixed rate for a fixed term. If they don't have cash on hand to weather the storm they end up fukked. As these entities fight for survival they'll cannibalise each other in a race to the bottom to get revenue through the door until their model collapses.

Big business will buy up what has value to them. The rest of the carcass will be scavenged by those that can turn their business model to making money out of the bones. There'll be less competition, big business will raise prices under the pretense of increased costs just because, and the proletariat will foot the bill as the super rich get more rich.

Gonna get scary out here.
 

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McDowell's
I don’t know who Mr Fortune is, I’ll look him up

Sowell is a genius, one of my heroes





Did you study Econ in college?

interesting video. i dont know too much about sowell, i know some profs who've met him decades ago but im not particularly aware of any theories or papers he's written
 

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I wonder how he was managing his money like this. For instance if he wants to buy somethings that's 1.2 million, was he wiring the money between banks into one account to make a large payment? Or did he have another method? :jbhmm:
Neither… Prob purchased with an Amex black card that has no spending limit… pay back the Amex with 3 different checking accounts linked to it.
 

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I wonder how he was managing his money like this. For instance if he wants to buy somethings that's 1.2 million, was he wiring the money between banks into one account to make a large payment? Or did he have another method? :jbhmm:

Not sure but if you worth some millions that is possible. But when you talking companies and people that have hundreds of Millions and Billions of dollars in cash that is impossible to do. shyt Amazon has over 53 Billion in cash. They would need to split that amount with over 200,000 bank institutions, if they trying to do 250K in each account...... :mjlol: . There are only like 4k bank institution in the US that are FDIC insured. :mjlol:

Real talk...overwhelmingly most Americans ain't got over 250K cash...shyt most Americans lucky they got 5K in cash. So worrying about them having more than the FDIC insurance in a bank account is just running off at the mouth. Most Americans don't even have over 250K cause its tied up in their pensions and retirement plans. Even your elder who retired probably doesn't have 250K cash in an account its probably in their pension that they get a check from every month.

In the end that is why people all over the world put money in American banks cause they know push comes to shove the US government will try to make them whole if something happens and not no Janky shyt like what happens to some folks overseas in shady countries where the government officials do the :yeshrug:when folks money disappears from their bank account.
 

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OPINION

GUEST ESSAY​

Elizabeth Warren: Silicon Valley Bank Is Gone. We Know Who Is Responsible.​


March 13, 2023

By Elizabeth Warren
Senator Warren is a Democrat from Massachusetts.

No one should be mistaken about what unfolded over the past few days in the U.S. banking system: These recent bank failures are the direct result of leaders in Washington weakening the financial rules.
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Greg Becker, the chief executive of Silicon Valley Bank, was one of the ‌many high-powered executives who lobbied Congress to weaken the law. In 2018, the big banks won. With support from both parties, President Donald Trump signed a law to roll back critical parts of Dodd-Frank. Regulators, including the Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, then made a bad situation worse, ‌‌letting financial institutions load up on risk.
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I fought against these changes. On the eve of the Senate vote in 2018, I warned‌, “Washington is about to make it easier for the banks to run up risk, make it easier to put our constituents at risk, make it easier to put American families in danger, just so the C.E.O.s of these banks can get a new corporate jet and add another floor to their new corporate headquarters.”

I wish I’d been wrong. But on Friday, S.V.B. executives were busy paying out congratulatory bonuses hours before the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation‌‌ rushed in to take over their failing institution — leaving countless businesses and non‌profits with accounts at the bank alarmed that they wouldn’t be able to pay their bills and employees.

S.V.B. suffered from a toxic mix of risky management and weak supervision. For one, the bank relied on a concentrated group of tech companies with big deposits, driving an abnormally large ratio of uninsured deposits‌. This meant that weakness in a single sector of the economy could threaten the bank’s stability.

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Finally, if we are to deter this kind of risky behavior from happening again, it’s critical that those responsible not be rewarded. S.V.B. and Signature shareholders will be wiped out, but their executives must also be held accountable. Mr. Becker of S.V.B. took home $9.9 million in compensation last year, including a $1.5 million bonus for boosting bank profitability — and its riskiness. Joseph DePaolo of Signature got $8.6 million. We should claw all of that back, along with bonuses for other executives at these banks. Where needed, Congress should empower regulators to recover pay and bonuses
Prosecutors and regulators should investigate whether any executives engaged in insider trading ‌or broke other civil or criminal laws.

These bank failures were entirely avoidable if Congress and the Fed had done their jobs and kept strong banking regulations in place since 2018. S.V.B. and Signature are gone, and now Washington must act quickly to prevent the next crisis.
She named names :wow:

Experts around their field and smart people keep trying to warn everyone yeteveryone seems to gloss over what they say.

Another field/topic/place where people are and have been ignoring warnings?
A.I. We've fallen so behind on legislation here.

Going to be some interesting times ahead.

I think people need to be less verbose with their explanations though, something ironically A.I is becoming terrific at doing this.
Maybe have all these laws processed by an A.I to make sense of it all because there are so many inconsistencies everywhere.
Way too exceptions setting bad precedents for these things to happen.
 
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Sowell is a c00n of the highest order.
That word means nothing in ‘23.

If you have a problem with him you're either a follower whose never heard him speak or you’re a bum that’s offended because he doesn’t make excuses for you.
 

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That word means nothing in ‘23.

If you have a problem with him you're either a follower whose never heard him speak or you’re a bum that’s offended because he doesn’t make excuses for you.

He's a c00n because he knowingly preaches a false narrative about the socio-economic plight of African Americans to a White audience for financial gain/Celebrity. Anyone who discusses the socio-economic plight of African Americans from the 50s onward while dismissing how Blacks were affected by redlining and the war on drugs, but making a big deal about welfare, is obviously either completely ignorant or intellectually dishonest. If the majority of Americans' predominant source of generational wealth comes from the value of their home, minimizing the effects of redlining (Which wasn't abolished until the 70s) is at best intellectually dishonest. No doubt Sowell is intelligent, it just makes him look even more guilty.

There's a reason you don't see Sowell debates or interviews with the black contemporaries of his day.
 
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