Until the Glass-Steagall Act is restored, barring the Wall Street trading casino from owning federally-insured commercial banks, the U.S. banking system will lurch from one crisis to the next, until its reputation as a first-class financial system is relegated to the dustbin of history.

  Lobbyists Grab Control at House Financial Services Hearings, Backing Jamie Dimon’s Push to Gut Higher Capital Proposals We’re very sorry to have to tell you this, but if you’re not watching Senate Banking or House Financial Services Committee hearings …

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Bank Run Alert! $70 billion withdrawn from commercial banks last week (8/23-8/30). $889 billion in deposits has been pulled since the all time hit 4/13/22. It looks like the bank run is back to picking up speed!

by Dismal-Jellyfish https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DPSACBW027SBOG https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h8/20230825/ A tad over a year ago (4/13/2022) the high was hit at $18,158.3536 billion: Date Deposits, All Commercial Banks (billions) Down from all time high (billions) 4/13/2022 $18,158 0 2/22/2023 (Run picks up speed) $17,690 -$468 …

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FDIC Announces Start of Marketing Process for $33 Billion Commercial Real Estate Loan Portfolio of Former Signature Bank, New York.

by Dismal-Jellyfish Source: https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23071.html Today, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) announced the start of a marketing process for the approximately $33 billion Commercial Real Estate (CRE) loan portfolio retained in receivership following the failure of Signature Bank, New York, New …

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The Commercial Real Estate/Small Bank Boogie! CRE Crisis Could Cause Small Banks To Collapse (Bank Credit Growth Now Negative As 10Y-2Y Yield Curve Remains Inverted)

by confoundedinterest17 We are back in the USSR! And the economy taking commands from Washington DC! Introduction During the COVID-19 pandemic the occurrence of remote work jumped, out of sheer necessity. The technology was already available, but the pandemic accelerated its adoption …

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U.S. Bank lending on the decline! Commercial and Industrial loans slide for two weeks straight. Meanwhile, GDP up 2.4% last quarter? Is it sustainable growth or fueled by mounting debt? #Economy #BankLending #GDP #Debt”

by Dismal-Jellyfish Reminder, while banks have the liquidity fairy, ‘we’ get the promise of 2 more rate hikes this year, Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic yet again enrichens himself inappropriately from his position. What I want to talk about this afternoon is–Commercial and …

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$78 billion withdrawn from commercial banks last week (7/5-7/12). $869 billion in deposits has been pulled since the all time hit 4/13/22. With the FDIC announcement today banks aren’t reporting their uninsured deposits correctly, will this re-accelerate the bank run already picking up pace again?!?

by Dismal-Jellyfish I would like to review a few items this morning: Commercial deposit withdrawals Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP) making up for gaps Todays notice from FDIC banks aren’t correctly reporting the amount of deposits they have that aren’t …

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Financial Climate Change! Billionaire Sternlicht Warns CRE Storm Now “Category 5 Hurricane” (Starwood Defaults On $212.4 Million Commercial Mortgage Loan In Atlanta)

by confoundedinterest17 No, this isn’t a John Kerry/Greta Thunberg hysterical warning about climate change. But a storm created by 1) Biden/Congress spending splurge and 2) excessive monetary stimulypto by The Federal (Feral) Reserve. Now that The Fed is withdrawing the …

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Sliding Commercial and Industrial Loans and the Bank Term Funding Program: How the Fed’s Two-Tiered System is Distorting Idiosyncratic Risk in the Market and Setting Us on a Risky Path Towards Moral Hazard.

by Dismal-Jellyfish Reminder, while banks have the liquidity fairy, ‘we’ get the promise of 2 more rate hikes this year, Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic yet again enrichens himself inappropriately from his position. What I want to talk about tonight is something new–Commercial …

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Biden Banks! Regional Banks Scramble To Unload Commercial Real Estate Loans, Fearing New Crisis (Analysts Fear CRE Exposure Could Spark Another Round Of Bank Failures)

by confoundedinterest17 Between work at home, Bidenflation and The Feral Reserve, commercial real estate and regional banks are suffering … and it could get a lot worse. And Joe Biden (aka, Negan) in general. Living in Negan Country! By Kevin Stocklin, Epoch …

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Get ready for cascading defaults as commercial real estate being run into the ground. The trend of walking away from commercial mortgages is just beginning.

by Simian_Stacker lololololol pic.twitter.com/9eHXg1CN6v — KKGB (@INArteCarloDoss) June 6, 2023 Banks Cutting Losses on Distressed Office Loans  Earlier this year, RXR dropped a bomb on New York commercial real estate. CEO Scott Rechler signaled that his firm might hand lenders …

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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, …

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