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Turmoil in the Global Banking System: Causes, Remedies, Opportunities

This Week in Intelligent Investing

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The Differences Between the US and Europe in Deposit Bases

In the US, basically the consumer gets all the benefit. In Europe, if you have a long term fixed rate mortgage and interest rates go down, you can't just go refinance that. There's not another country in the world with a 30 year fixed rate mortgage market like the US has. So the banks are taking a huge risk in the US on the kind of long term curve without the benefit when rates go down because people just refight.

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