Posted on 03/19/2023 8:34:26 AM PDT by upchuck
This week, a lot of attention has been focused on the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank. It is, in fact, a story of faulty accounting practices, poor government oversight, and the effects of government micromanaging markets at the same time that it fails in its oversight responsibilities. And you will be paying for it. Accounting Shenanigans
Over at the Wall Street Journal, William L. Silber explains this better than anyone, and in terms anyone who ever purchased a government bond can understand. They are safe. The problem is liquidity:
SVB held tens of billions of dollars in long-term government bonds. On its face, this may seem like a prudent investment for a bank, but Treasury securities are riskless only when held to maturity. If you have to sell before then, you can easily lose money if market rates have risen since you first purchased the bond. For example, buying a 10-year U.S. Treasury bond with a 2% coupon at par and holding it for 10 years earns you 2% per annum. But if you sell early and rates have jumped -- say, 4% since you bought the bond -- then the price will have declined to about $838 per $1,000 face value, meaning you incur a loss of $162 per $1,000 bond.
The bank officers know, or certainly should know that is the case, and when the Federal Reserve increases interest those bonds are worth far less than an accounting system which shows it as a “held to maturity” item. You have incurred a loss if you have to cash it before maturity. But even so the income from the bond is listed as income, allowing the bank officers and managers to reward themselves handsomely for the “profits” on investment.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
AAABEST :"Insane, corrupt lawyer/politicians have all the levers of power and are just openly looting America at this point.
In addition to robbing us for their 1.2 trillion enviro slush fund, they’ll rob us to bail their buddies out."
"..SVB was run by woke clowns funding enviro-trash startups. They didn’t have a risk manager for the last year of clownery."
All quite true ! Add to that the distribution of "profits" to the bank board members immediately prior to issuing a request for bankruptcy,
even though they knew that the profits were on paper only,.. not existence in reality.
That makes those distributions criminal, with malicious criminal intent.
Also, the fact that some were aware of the bank holding long term notes at 2% and less, while the Federal interest rate climbed to over 6.5%,
indicates blatant stupidity and ignorance of banking procedure, anticipating a 'loss' rather than 'profit'.
Beijing Biden’s Bailout of SVB Saved China, Gavin Newsome, Buzzfeed, VOX and BLM
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/bidens-bailout-of-svb-saved-china-gavin-newsome-buzzfeed-vox-and-blm/
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