The twin crashes in US commercial real estate and the US bond market have collided with $9 trillion uninsured deposits in the American banking system. Such deposits can vanish in an afternoon in the cyber age.
Half of America’s banks are potentially insolvent – this is how a credit crunch begins
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Pensions Lose Millions After Bank Collapse
Pensions across the globe have lost millions of dollars due to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB).
In the wake of SVB’s Friday closure, several pension funds in the U.S. and two overseas have confirmed that they had investments in SVB stock that will likely be at a loss now that the bank has been shut down by federal regulators.
Pensions Lose Millions After Bank Collapse
Michael Hudson: Why the US banking system is breaking up
Economist Michael Hudson responds to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, and explains the similarities with the 2008 financial crash and the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s.
Michael Hudson: Why the US banking system is breaking up
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