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Despite Getting Whacked by Bank Turmoil, Layoff News, Credit Crunch, High Interest Rates, and Inflation, our Drunken Sailors Spent Even More, Even Adjusted for Inflation

Guest Post from Wolf Richter at WolfStreet.com: Where does the money come from? They now out-earn inflation, they earn interest income, and they dipped into their assets whose prices ballooned over the years. Consumer spending, adjusted for inflation and for seasonal factors jumped by 0.5% in April from March, after two months of declines and …

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Invasion of Privacy! New Supreme Court Ruling Allows the IRS to Access Your Bank Records Secretly

New Supreme Court Ruling Allows the IRS to Access Your Bank Records Secretly “It is now completely legal for the IRS to secretly obtain the bank records of third-party individuals who are not under Federal investigation,” reported @RomanBalmakov. “If the IRS is trying to… pic.twitter.com/8ISHEW9hGi — The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) May 31, 2023 Kevin …

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Goldman Sachs, the Bank That Almost Sank World Economy in 2008, Is At It Again

by Chris Black Goldman Sachs’ online bank, Marcus, is the only large bank offering a competitive interest rate (https://www.bankrate.com/banking/money-market/rates/) on its savings accounts – over 400 times that being offered by JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and even Citibank. Marcus (https://www.marcus.com/us/en/savings/high-yield-savings) is the online banking platform offered by Goldman Sachs Bank USA – which is …

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Jay Powell’s Fed hasn’t yet realized the full gravity of what’s coming… There are clear risks of devastating market crashes, domino bank failures, a highly destabilizing Credit contraction

RELAX everything’s going to be fine, if there was ANY chance of collapse all the “experts” on the main collapse subreddit would be all over this. /s via realclearmarkets: “In purely technical terms, all these together are betting heavily on lower interest rates all over the world in the not-too-distant future. As they’ve come to …

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RUMOR that Bank of America will be buyer of Signature Bank… There’s a problem though…

via NYPOST: Bill Ackman in a tweet on Friday said Bank of America is going to acquire Signature Bank on Monday, without citing the source of the information. “I am hearing that @BankofAmerica is going to buy Signature Bank on Monday. Unless and until we can protect uninsured deposits, the cost of capital is going to rise for smaller banks …

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Bank Run Underway? Updated commercial bank deposit data shows $54.1738 Billion in deposits removed. Last week saw it going from $17.64t to $17.61t (-$30b)–$80+ Billion removed from deposits in the last two weeks!

by Dismal-Jellyfish It gets even more interesting! 1 year ago: 3/16: 18,073.5395 Billion. High was hit 4/13/2022: 18,130.6814 Billion. Over half a trillion in deposits pulled in the last year! Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (US), Deposits, All Commercial Banks [DPSACBW027SBOG], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DPSACBW027SBOG, March …

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Signature Bank in New York closed by regulators

🚨#BREAKING: Signature Bank, has been closed by State authorities. — R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) March 12, 2023 Regulators closed New York’s Signature Bank, citing systemic risk. Signature is one of the main banks to the cryptocurrency industry. As of Dec. 31, Signature had $110.4 billion in total assets …

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FDIC Reportedly On Scene At First Republic Bank Headquarters!

Another Bank specializing in Tech loans and services for “High Net Worth Individuals”, but more of a Public bank than SVB was. The cashless society people really want that cash! https://twitter.com/_/status/1634783756656492544 https://twitter.com/_/status/1634790617627914240 View post on imgur.com Contagion has already spread. My local First Republic Bank was closed today (normally open), could not do wires or …

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Pacwest Bank is worse than First Republic. Contagion spreading.

via benzinga: PacWest Bancorp shares are trading lower by 28.61% to $14.20 Friday morning. The stock is sharply lower as shares of several regional banks and financial institutions sell off on downward momentum after SVB Financial Group Wednesday announced a $1.25 billion common stock offering. SVB Financial Group was also halted during pre-market trading Friday …

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Silicon Valley Bank has failed. It’s the second largest bank failure in US history. Roughly 95% of Silicon Valley Bank’s deposits were FIDC uninsured.

SVB works with literally like half of all US VC-backed startups, and is similarly popular for their banking services in the UK and wider Europe. If they find they’ve lost any significant portion of their funding then we’re going to see a large wave of western start-ups wiped/ significantly hobbled by SVB collapsing. $42B WITHDRAWN …

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