This^^^^ happens under the watchful eyes of the
Fed’s thousands of bank regulators…and
thousands more analysts on Wall Street…that the “second biggest bank collapse in US history [SVB]...unfolded …
without a single person issuing a peep of warning.
In a nutshell looking at the numbers, deposits at SVB went from $60 billion in 2019 to $189 billion in 2022. The IPO/SPAC/tech boom was good to SVP. But what does a bank do with all that depositor cash? What could it do? It bought bonds. And then, as interest rates rose, bonds fell.
Thomas Hogan, the former chief economist for the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, does not think these are legitimate criticisms against Trump.
“In fact, he say the opposite that it’s almost certainly true that the banks are more regulated, and that makes it more difficult for them to work."
He cited his study that was published in the Journal of Regulatory Economics, explaining that the landmark Dodd-Frank bill bolstered average annual payments by exorbitant amounts that made it costlier for banks to function and “therefore more likely to fail” since they took on more risk.
A key reason for the current problem is the mark-to-market regulations that identify the so-called fair value of a fluctuating asset or liability based on the current market price. “If banks are planning to hold these securities, then they’re really not actually in any danger of failing,” Hogan said. “But the regulation makes them look like they are at risk, which is what originally caused these threats.”
The shrinking money supply has also weighed on the banking system, says Steve Hanke, the professor of applied economics at John Hopkins University and senior fellow at the Independent Institute. “As I predicted, the Fed’s contraction of the money supply has created a banking bloodbath,” he tweeted.
Complete and utter manure bank management along with the FED's incompetence. I'll defer this summary to my good friend and expert in the field, Reasoned. 👍