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Fed Governor Stein Warns When A TBTF Bank Fails, Depositors Will Be Cyprus’ed

Friday, April 19, 2013 15:16
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“Fed Governor Stein Warns When A TBTF Bank Fails,
 Depositors Will Be Cyprus’ed”
by Tyler Durden
“Two months ago, Fed governor Jeremy Stein caused a major stir among the very serious excel-using economists and other wannabe “scientists”-cum-voodoo witchdoctors, when he hinted that it was the Fed’s actions that were leading to “overheating” in the markets. It took quite a bit of rhetoric by other very serious people to talk down his comments and give the impression that the S&P is not about 50% overvalued. Today, Stein has managed to stick his foot in his mouth for the second time in a row, and do what virtually nobody in the status quo is capable of: tell the truth.
In a speech titled “Regulating Large Financial Institutions” Stein made something very clear: If and when a TBTF fails, and since this time is not different, and a failure is only a matter of time, depositors will lose everything (courtesy of some $300 trillion in gross unnetted liabilities which once there is a counterparty chain failure, suddenly become very much net and immediately marginable – a drain of cash), which now that Cyprus is the template, is to be expected. Not only that but Stein makes it all too clear that part of the Dodd-Frank resolution authority guidelines, a bailout is no longer an option.
“Perhaps more to the point for TBTF, if a SIFI does fail I have little doubt that private investors will in fact bear the losses- even if this leads to an outcome that is messier and more costly to society than we would ideally like. Dodd-Frank is very clear in saying that the Federal Reserve and other regulators cannot use their emergency authorities to bail out an individual failing institution. And as a member of the Board, I am committed to following both the letter and the spirit of the law.”
At least he can’t say Americans weren’t warned when the Cypressing(sic) hammer finally falls. Oh, and as a reminder…”
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Better yet, go here to see this in large graphic form:

Oh no, folks, don’t say you weren’t warned, repeatedly, time and time again…
- CP



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