🔥 Almost half of America’s 4,800 banks are already burning through their capital buffers.

🔥 More than 2,315 US banks are currently sitting on assets worth less than their liabilities.

🔥 The market value of their loan portfolios is $2 trillion lower than the stated book value.

Monetary Tightening and U.S. Bank Fragility in 2023: Mark-to-Market Losses and Uninsured Depositor Runs?

By Erica Xuewei Jiang, Gregor Matvos, Tomasz Piskorski, Amit Seru

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/working-papers/monetary-tightening-us-bank-fragility-2023-mark-market-losses

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/half-of-americas-banks-are-already-insolvent-–-this-is-how-a-credit-crunch-begins/ar-AA1aDhwV

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You can bank on it!

Yes. But the banking system is sound and resilient, the Fed said. From the same guys that said that inflation was transitory.

Fed is builder of the foundation, you don't show the rotten foundation to the clients.

Snort had a problem with the second link in your note. Apparently it doesn't like the ---.

Here it is that same link another way:

https://archive.ph/mh1fO

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