Will they roll the dice with .5% increase and watch the banking sector cave in like SVB because their Treasury investments are in the toilet? Is Charlie buying bonds? Does he care? He's already made over $100M on this WF circus, the greatest sh*tshow on earth
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Well, well, well the Fed raised rates again. Gotta keep those banks under control, I mean inflation! Better strengthen those hedges
@kdt It's not like the banks didn't see the rate hikes coming. Acting like they were blindsided just goes to show how terrible economists are at predicting the future.
Hyperinflation is their only way out of the mess they've created.
Stockpile essentials.
This entire thread...😴
- 250 is close to 100% priced in right now
Both hopefully 🎪
- 25...and still inflation AND bank failures. The FRB is powerless to stop this. They've painted themselves into a corner.
Government spending out of control
Take a sledge hammer to the printing press and rip off the band aid
raise rates .... Don't raise rates.....
Why does it matter?
If the banks run into too much stress, the fed will pump them full of "temporary" money until they're back to operating normally. There's literally no systemic risk, only individual risk per bank which is based on their likelihood to be bailed out.
No increase is my bet. Too many mid-sized banks without interest rate hedges or weak hedges.