DHUnplugged Podcast

Banks get smoked as depositors run scared. Fortunately we get a Sunday Night STICK SAVE! We have some bones to pick - bad math and even worse work ethics. Where are the bargains? We have some thoughts. PLUS we are now on Spotify and Amazon Music/Podcasts! Click HERE for Show Notes and Links DHUnplugged is now streaming live - with listener chat. Click on link on the right sidebar. Love the Show? Then how about a Donation? Follow John C. Dvorak on Twitter Follow Andrew Horowitz on Twitter Warm Up - Back from Central America! - Largest bank failure since 2008! - Fed will keep raising until something breaks - HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Worst Fed Ever! - General lack of any business sense - math clearly not a priority in last generations - - No attention to detail - oversight sucks- management is limp - Sunday Night STICK SAVE! (A joint statement from the various regulators involved said there would be no bailouts and no taxpayer costs associated with any of the new plans. ) Market Update - Capitalism is Dead - Moral Hazard Lives On! - 2-day panic attack with region banks - SVB Blowup - DJIA down for the year - California Banking system is imploding - RUN-ON-Bank - CPI - not slowing down too much - 6% YoY - Everyone now banking on less Fed hikes due to banking crisis - or none... Or cuts! (85% chance for 0.25% increase next week) Coming up this week on Andrew's TDI Podcast - Guest, Anthony Scarramucci BONE TO PICK - All these tik-tok nubes  - want to be a millionaire but have no idea what that means - LET me explain something from someone who works with lots of money all the time... It takes work and then more work - - You can't just make it, you need to keep it. That is just as hard. ---- Making it is not just seeing it on social media - it is a grind and something special - hard work - which it seems is not what people want. ----- Sit at home, no oversight, playing on phone, personal time and personal boundaries that are above work AND not watching the details. --- This is what creates the mess we see today - Then we want government to bail us out! Childish! Assuming everyone knows what happened. Right? - Banks started to get squeezed as assets/loan valuations got crushed under higher rates - Fed pushed hard and banks did not risk adjust - Bad oversight  - SVB - Moodys was going to downgrade, Theil makes some noise about problems, stock offering to raise capital, sold bonds at loss - run on bank - Started with other banks and the problems from overlevearaging with Crypto - all the dominoes falling had to impact firms (tech pulling cash to meet needs, other companies trimming up) - Realization hit that regional banks could have more problems The Fed is Actually Looking At Itself - EPIC lack of oversight, blinders on as usual - The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced that Vice Chair for Supervision Michael S. Barr is leading a review of the supervision and regulation of Silicon Valley Bank, in light of its failure. The review will be publicly released by May 1. - "The events surrounding Silicon Valley Bank demand a thorough, transparent, and swift review by the Federal Reserve," said Chair Jerome H. Powell. - "We need to have humility, and conduct a careful and thorough review of how we supervised and regulated this firm, and what we should learn from this experience," said Vice Chair Barr. - There will be findings, many many months out as to how they could have done better, but nothing will come of it. ----- Fox guarding the hen house. Should be independent but Fed is above it all - right? Late Call - Or is it Early? - Moody's cuts outlook on U.S. banking system to negative, citing 'rapidly deteriorating operating environment' - The firm, part of the big three rating services, said it was making the move in light of three key failures that prompted regulators to step in Sunday with a dramatic rescue plan for depositors and other i...