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Pam and Russ Martens: Three top Wall Street banks have $7.4 trillion in off-balance-sheet exposures

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Pam and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

In the past few weeks everyone from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to former Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen to bank analyst Mike Mayo have appeared on television to tell the American people that the big banks on Wall Street are well capitalized. To put it in Janet Yellen's exact words on CNBC last Thursday, "We have a strong, well-capitalized banking system."

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These folks have to keep repeating this mantra because the public is getting curious as to why the New York Fed has had to pump a cumulative $9 trillion in cash into these Wall Street banks, since September 17 of last year, if they are so well capitalized. Can big banks actually be well capitalized and have no liquid money to make loans -- the key function of a bank? As we have regularly noted, the Fed's trillions of dollars in cash infusions to the banks began months before there was any coronavirus outbreak anywhere in the world.

The reality is that the U.S. banking system looks well capitalized only if federal regulators, banking analysts, and the mainstream business press put blinders on and don't look at what's hiding in off-balance-sheet items at the banking behemoths on Wall Street -- the same fatal mistake they all made in the years leading up to the 2008 collapse. ...

... For the remainder of the report:

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/04/three-of-the-biggest-banks-on-wal...

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