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2023 First Quarter Commentary

8/15/2023

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Banking crisis underway, but a different sort from past crises.   Most will do fine. Those who should be cautious have combined balances for a single bank above the FDIC-protected $250,000 per depositor.

So far, the FDIC has agreed to cover unlimited balances, even those above their maximum.  In the end, a failed bank gets sold to a healthy bank.  The FDIC absorbs banks’ losses.  This has put the deposit insurance fund at risk.  To cover its $23 billion in losses, the FDIC is raising the insurance premiums that banks pay.

Failed bankers had been reckless.  These weren’t community banks like in the film It’s a Wonderful Life, in which the bank finances our local businesses and neighbors’ homes.  These banks failed because they re-invested the cash from their huge corporate depositors into long-term, fixed income securities that dropped sharply in value due to rising interest rates.  When large depositors heard their bank was in trouble, they withdrew their money, forcing the banks to sell securities at massive losses.  One problem led to another, all of which could have been foreseen. 

Millions of individuals have since been rethinking their banking arrangements.  Money market funds at Fidelity Investments and others are higher-yielding alternatives, as is the safety of U.S. Treasury bills, and all the local community banks I’ve reviewed recently should ride through the tumult just fine even after recording losses.

As a result of the crisis, banks are restructuring their balance sheets to avoid becoming case studies for failure in the future. 

​Trust is earned and recklessness will eventually fail.  The same could be said of investing.  
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