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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 …

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I feel like we’re watching The Big Short in real time…

by recklessSPY The Fed was on track to keep raising rates to stop inflation. Unemployment still hot and retail still spending. No reason to abate – maintain rates. Some banks f’d up and didn’t hedge their interest rate risk. Runs on regional banks showed how fragile the system is. Fed …

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For people who think the banks are fine…

  Fed Loaned $160 Billion to Banks and $142 billion to FDIC. But QT-Related Roll-off Continued At around 4.75%, plus collateral, these are expensive loans for banks. The Fed’s Discount Window Soared to Its Highest Level Since the Previous Financial Crisis of 2008 Fed Dead Redemption! Flight To Safety As …

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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 …

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Trump: “It has just been learned that the FBI took boxes of privileged attorney-client material, and also executive privileged material

View post on imgur.com https://nypost.com/2022/08/14/trump-calls-for-fbi-seized-documents-to-be-returned/ ​Former President Donald Trump on Sunday called for the Justice Department to return the reams of documents FBI agents seized at his Mar-a-Lago resort last week, pointing to a report that said the information was covered by attorney-client or executive privilege. “Oh great! It has …

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