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

This Week in Intelligent Investing

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The Effect of Interest Rates on the US Banking System

Interest rates have gone from zero to 5%, roughly in 15 months. Banks that put money to work in five and 10 year duration assets at one and a half percent are now way underwater on that. All of the held maturity portfolios combined is like $675 billion. So if you had to liquidate the entire industry today, would be vaporized.

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