Bail-In Risk Rises as Shadow Banks Hit 49% of Global Assets

From Zero Hedge

To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money, money, money everywhere and still not enough, and then no money or a little money or less money or more money, but money, always money, and if you have money or you don't have money it is the money that counts and money makes money, but what makes money make money?

Henry Miller

While the media fixates on interest rates and inflation, a $250 trillion shadow banking monster quietly grows, hidden from traditional regulation. Hedge funds and private equity firms operate with 100x leverage, taking massive risks backed by the very banks holding your savings.

"You didn’t sign up to fund these risky bets... but your bank did."

Shadow banking now holds nearly half of the world’s financial assets—and when those bets go bad, the losses won’t be theirs. Bail-ins are already on the table—and they’re 100% legal. Archegos Capital was just the warning shot. Next time, it could be trillions.

To see how deep this rabbit hole goes, watch the full breakdown in the video above and understand why the next meltdown might come from the shadows.

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Charles Hughes Smith

The damage done to the local economy, populace and its stock of social capital by this stripmining is of no concern to private equity: get in, maximize profits / gains and then get out, and start circling the planet for the next "opportunity to increase shareholder value." (Hence the term "vulture capital.")

Old Money, rooted in a place and its history, does care about the local economy, populace and its stock of social capital. Yes, Old Money makes money with its money; that is the nature of capital. But Old Money understands that stripmining assets with zero concern for the wreckage left behind does not support either democracy or a free economy that offers a somewhat level playing field to all participants.

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