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

This Week in Intelligent Investing

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The Unique Things About the American Banking System

The big banks just got a whole lot stronger. We had 8,000 banks when I was born; we're down to like half that now. The Fed's thrilled because this is taking air out of the balloon, right? So in that sense, yeah, it's cool. But there are macro consequences for sure. And the only part where it gets really bad and painful for like the average person or the economy writ large is if this creates its own credit cycle which feeds on itself.

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