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Nathan Tankus on The "Pozsar Moment" In Shadow Banking

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The Failure of Silicon Valley Bank

The failure of Silicon Valley Bank hinges around shadow money, uninsured deposits and what I'm re-insured institutional cash pools. The FDIC was created during the Great Depression so we wouldn't have another cascade of bank failures. Without direct connections to the FDIC backing or the Federal Reserve directly accessing lender of last resort, powers of the Federal Reserve, these are dangerous monies. They are things that are fragile. They can break apart. And they're pro-cyclical in the sense that they're seen as safe when times are good and they're not seen as safeWhen times are bad.

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