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 what would happen in March of 2024 when loans begin coming due from the Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP). He literally said that they hadn’t thought that far ahead.

Powell et al. created a $100+ billion bailout facility with no exit strategy, and now they talk about it like it’s nothing. The attitude extends even to major banking houses like BoA, which has openly admitted that it has hundreds of billions of dollars of unrealized losses on its books but expects to realize none of them. In other words, everyone, the Fed included, is acting like the BTFP is a permanent facility.

keeping UNREALIZED DERIVATIVE gambling losses in books forever has become true American banking accounting culture maybe in fact.

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