The BofA $136B Dynamite Stick
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The BofA $136B Dynamite Stick
Looking from this perspective at the U.S. deficit, by far not all of the credits borrowed by the government were financed by the Fed. According to preliminary and rough estimates, not 40 percent but “only” about 13 percent of U.S. expenditures are presently financed this way. Moreover, in discussing this problem it has to be taken into account that
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The executive said the “cake was already baked well before March 10, when it failed.” Indeed, in the 24 hours before SVB collapsed, Becker told his team the bank had lost $40 billion in deposits in four hours. That’s when a call was set up between Becker, the Fed, the F.D.I.C. and the state of California. “We’re not going to make it,” they were tol... See more