Don't we need a chain of bank failures?

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Anarchist420

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Although it wouldn't beat hard money 100% reservism, I'd like it if the Fed were to raise the Federal funds rate to 100%. That way, the banks wouldn't loan anything and interest on the debt would be so high that the Federal government would be forced to repudiate the debt and to balance the budget.

I've never understood why anyone who is not an elite in Europe is questioning repudiation. It would be a sharp pain initially, but that sharp pain would turn into long term pleasure for non-elite Europeans.

Who else would like to see a massive deflationary bust without the government bailing debtors out?

I was asking because I read on bloomberg that a few rather large banks have had their credit ratings downgraded and I'd like to see them fail for loaning out 90-98% of their liabilities.
 

feralkid

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Hugo Drax

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If we would have let the TBTFs collapse and get taken over by something similar to RTC where you would have an orderly liquidation. we would have been better off.

We are actually in a more precarious situation now that we have these TBTFs backed up by the government in a lemon socialist way.
 

MovingTarget

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Forcefully breaking up TBTF banks and putting a moratorium on bank mergers/buyouts is the way to go. This should never have been allowed to happen.


This "hard money" nonsense will only put the breaks on economic activity. There were damn good reasons for moving away from the Gold/Silver standards in the past which still hold true today.
 
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