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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Man, if it were just this then banks would be pretty stable.

    The problem is banks don’t just lend and receive money, they invest. And they invest in everything. And they take super risky bets.

    This is what caused the banking collapse of 2008 and what caused the death of SVB and a few other banks.

    Your bank doesn’t just hold your money and debt, if you rent it almost certainly owns a peice of the company managing your property. It owns crypto assets. It has shares of startups. And it uses those assets to get more money to create more debt.

    Dobb Frank was created to stop some of this, but unfortunately it’s been effectively repealed already.