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Old 03-13-2023, 04:12 PM
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Default Next "career ending" crisis already here?

Didn't think we'd have a Greece style run on the banks but that seems more likely after today.

Think in a month we wished we had taken ta1?
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Poorly run banks are supposed to fail. The government stepped in early. SVB was a victim of its dumb portfolio and ridiculously narrow customer base.
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Poorly run banks are supposed to fail. The government stepped in early. SVB was a victim of its dumb portfolio and ridiculously narrow customer base.
What about the other 2?
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What about the other 2?
both heavily exposed to cryptocurrency.
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both heavily exposed to cryptocurrency.
Yes, agreed. People often forget that EVERY business that runs itself into insolvency has a CEO and lots of other people who are supposed to be smart making extremely risky/bad decisions. In the next few, it seems like more and more of these businesses will be discovered/exposed...
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Yes, agreed. People often forget that EVERY business that runs itself into insolvency has a CEO and lots of other people who are supposed to be smart making extremely risky/bad decisions. In the next few, it seems like more and more of these businesses will be discovered/exposed...
Yeah. Let’s hope so. But the media narrative wants to spin this that the sky is falling. It CAN’T be that these are relatively isolated because someone made some bad investment decisions that really don’t amount to much outside of their relatively small business sector.
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Yeah. Let’s hope so. But the media narrative wants to spin this that the sky is falling. It CAN’T be that these are relatively isolated because someone made some bad investment decisions that really don’t amount to much outside of their relatively small business sector.
Fractional reserve banking is really vulnerable to bank runs and can put banks in a liquidity crunch, even if they are properly managed and risk adverse. The government had to step in to backstop this to prevent the bleeding from carrying over and crushing regional banks. Even banks who are responsibly lending will have a liquidity crunch because they are lending out customer deposits to make a profit. This is a feature, not a bug, of the system.
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Fractional reserve banking is really vulnerable to bank runs and can put banks in a liquidity crunch, even if they are properly managed and risk adverse. The government had to step in to backstop this to prevent the bleeding from carrying over and crushing regional banks. Even banks who are responsibly lending will have a liquidity crunch because they are lending out customer deposits to make a profit. This is a feature, not a bug, of the system.
I doubt half the people on here know what a liquidity crunch is. They just hear what their cable news program shoves doesn’t their throats and goes running off in a blind panic. The money wasn’t gone, they just made the dumb choice to tie so much of it up in bonds that they didn’t have access to when a couple of VC’s panicked and caused a run on the bank.
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History rhymes.
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History rhymes.
Until it doesn’t, then you have free form poetry slam
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