Danwell Home said:
cgh1999 said:
Dan Scott said:
Was this the reason
She could've said something softer than that. I can almost guarantee you that one or two more banks will fail because of that statement alone. Insane.
They'll have to do something after that happens. Otherwise, when the real estate market start showing significant weakness, the entire banking system will get destroyed.
Or, maybe that's what they want.
It's going to take real estate imploding IMO. At least residential since they seem to be focusing on a lot of housing related inflation figures.
A normal real estate dip is coming. Bank underwriting standards have tightened significantly over the last time. Borrowers typically have 10-15% more cash equity in projects than in previous times. Banks have higher levels of capital on their balance sheets and would be much more prepared to handle the downturn.
What they weren't prepared for is the Fed removing a significant amount of liquidity from the market and simultaneously raising rates so fast that borrowers could not refinance their projects.
So, WHEN RE problems arise, community and regional banks won't have the balance sheet strength to manage because the fed and yellen are all but encouraging depositors to move to Chase, BAC, and other too big to fail banks.