How The US Banking Crisis Could Lead to The Collapse of The Western Financial System

The growing number of institutional failures is a signal that the entire economic system is under pressure.

The US banking industry is reeling from a string of bank failures, which kicked off last week and continue to rattle both domestic and global markets. Economists spell doom and gloom, despite efforts to stem the fallout. Here’s what you need to know.

  1. What happened?
    California-based, crypto-focused bank Silvergate was the first to announce impending liquidation last Wednesday. Then came tech and start-up favorite Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the implosion of which on Friday was the largest US bank collapse since the financial crisis of 2008. New York-based Signature Bank was the latest to be shut down over the weekend, as regulators feared for its liquidity.
  2. Why did the banks fail?
    The banks saw their stocks plunge following massive deposit outflows amid fears of a recession, higher interest rates, and a slowdown in the market for initial public offerings. These factors made it harder for many businesses to raise additional cash and led companies to draw down their deposits at SVB and similar lenders.
  3. What do interest rates have to do with it?
    In order to tame inflation, governments in the West began to raise interest rates. There is a historic correlation between higher interest rates and failures of overleveraged financial institutions. Overleveraging occurs when a business has borrowed too much money and is unable to pay interest or principal repayments, or maintain payments for its operating expenses. Interest rates in the US have been hiked on more than one occasion over the past year, and many analysts warn they are currently too high at 4.5%-4.75% to keep financial bubbles from bursting.
  4. Who’s next?
    The stock meltdown resumed with a vengeance on Monday, with several bank stocks halted due to volatility. As of mid-day, PacWest Bancorp, Zions Bancorporation, First Republic Bank and Regions Financial were no longer trading until further notice.
  5. How did the Fed react?
    The Federal Reserve, US Treasury and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) on Sunday announced a new emergency program aiming to shore up confidence in the banking system and protect depositors of failing banks. They will allow both insured and uninsured depositors of the collapsed banks full access to their money through a special FDIC fund. The Fed also separately announced it would make additional funding available for banks in cases of emergency, through a new Bank Term Funding Program.
  6. Will the measures stem the fallout of the collapses?
    Traders and analysts claim the panic is already ripe and could further push investors to move funds from small banks to what they view as the safety of large systemically important lenders. This would drain liquidity from the latter and may lead to their downfall.
  7. Is there a risk of a broader upheaval?
    Governments in the US, Britain and Canada have been taking extraordinary steps to prevent a potential banking crisis. Germany’s finance watchdog stated the “distressed situation” of SVB’s German branch “does not pose a threat to financial stability.” According to some analysts, there’s no risk of contagion, since the authorities have stepped in.
  8. What’s the worst-case scenario?
    Depositors could panic, resulting in national runs on banks. Since lenders don’t have the money they will be forced to close their doors and block depositors’ access to their accounts. As governments cannot protect all depositors, we could be facing a 1929-style Great Depression or worse – the collapse of the entire Western financial system.

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  1. It’s an evil game by the KM FED using fiat currency to inflate or deflate all markets thus destroying the little guy and the family, only to enrich the elite themselves.

    VIDEO at this link: https://amg-news.com/boom-181-silicon-valley-bank-trump-the-cartel-drug-money-bank-people-this-is-the-real-truth-video/
    This tells it like it was… like it actually happened where SVB was tipped off to pull out their cartel money, thus is this why the Deep State went after Trump. This also states that Covid was part of the coverup, and more. The only term to describe this agenda is Globalism and every nation has been involved.

    The corruption is everywhere, and deeply ingrained into every country, its’ society, and culture. This adds emphasis that NESARA Law (rumored to this day) is the only viable source to create a jubilee (forgiveness of debt), and to return to a gold standard currency.

    Stand by to be astonished! It all ties back to the Pandora Papers data on more than 9,000 offshore companies, trusts, and foundations involved in money laundering as published by the ICIJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists). See https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/

    Benjamin Netanyahu and Klause Schwab (WEF) are also implicated. Look up “Finks Bar Diatribe”

    RINO Mitt Romney (Bain Capital) has been rumored to have moved vast amounts of fiat cash into offshore accounts. This may be his demise. GITMO may be the only answer for military tribunals and executions for treason. What a rude awakening this will be for humanity!

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