{"id":65196,"date":"2023-03-25T10:14:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T15:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65196"},"modified":"2023-03-25T10:14:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T15:14:44","slug":"is-a-full-blown-global-banking-meltdown-in-the-offing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65196","title":{"rendered":"Is a full-blown global banking meltdown in the offing?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Is a full-blown global banking meltdown in the offing?<\/a><\/h3>\n
If everything is fine, then why have US banks borrowed $153 billion at a punitive 4.75% against collateral at the discount window, a larger amount than in 2008\/9?<\/div>\n
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Financial crashes like revolutions are impossible until they are inevitable. They typically proceed in stages. Since central banks began to increase interest rates in response to rising inflation, financial markets have been under pressure.<\/p>\n

In 2022, there was the crypto meltdown (approximately\u00a0$2 trillion of losses<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The S&P500 index fell\u00a0about 20\u00a0<\/a>percent. The largest US technology companies, which include Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon,\u00a0lost around $4.6 trillion<\/a>\u00a0in market value\u00a0 The September 2022 UK gilt crisis may have cost\u00a0$500 billion<\/a>. 30 percent of emerging market countries and 60 percent of low-income nations\u00a0face a debt crisis<\/a>. The problems have now reached the financial system, with US, European and Japanese banks losing\u00a0around $460 billion<\/a>\u00a0in market value in March 2023.<\/p>\n

While it is too early to say whether a full-fledged financial crisis is imminent, the trajectory is unpromising.<\/p>\n

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The affected US regional banks had specific failings.\u00a0The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank<\/a>\u00a0(“SVB”) highlighted the interest rate risk of financing holdings of long-term fixed-rate securities with short-term deposits. SVB and First Republic Bank (“FRB”) also illustrate the problem of the $250,000 limit on Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) coverage.\u00a0Over 90 percent of failed SVB and Signature Bank as well as two-thirds of FRB deposits were uninsured<\/a>, creating a predisposition to a liquidity run in periods of financial uncertainty.<\/p>\n

The crisis is not exclusively American. Credit Suisse has been, to date, the highest-profile European institution affected. The venerable Swiss bank — which critics dubbed\u00a0 ‘Debit Suisse’ — has a\u00a0troubled history<\/a> of banking dictators, money laundering, sanctions breaches, tax evasion and fraud, shredding documents sought by regulators and poor risk management evidenced most recently by high-profile losses associated with hedge fund Archegos and fintech firm Greensill.<\/p>\n

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Is a full-blown global banking meltdown in the offing? If everything is fine, then why have US banks borrowed $153 billion at a punitive 4.75% against collateral at the discount window, a larger amount than in 2008\/9? (Express Illustration) Financial crashes like revolutions are impossible until they are inevitable. They typically proceed in stages. Since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,2014,6588,33793,13639],"class_list":["post-65196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-banking","tag-banking-crisis","tag-financial-crash","tag-new-indian-express","tag-satyajit-das"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65197,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65196\/revisions\/65197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}