Yet another situation in which the people pay for their banks and leaders "spending extravaganza" and bad management. This has become the norm throughout the years yet we still give these guys our businesses. Soon people will be fed up of banging their heads against a brick wall...
Such situations are causing investors all over Europe to question the safety of the banking system.
For quite a long time, lol, people aren't questioning themselves just now. Unfortunately it is simply hard for some to stop questioning themselves and act.
Thank you.
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My *guess* is that this will be a long and drawn out process (Italian banking system breaking down and perhaps dragging along the rest of Europe). Keep an eye on Monte Paschi, a BIG Italian bank in big trouble.
We were just in Italy and saw NOTHING different. No demonstrations, no closed banks, all stores open, ATMs working, etc. So, I would agree that increasing bank failures in Europe will cause more and more pain over time, but I think it will take a while.
But, sometimes these things appear to move very slowly, then BANG! And then the party is over.
Italy would just be another country dragging Europe...
You don't see anything out of the ordinary until huge news break. Maybe a delegation of a bank closing here or there, but things work as usual until the point of total breakdown...
Few banks in Italy to infect bitcoin's price ? Highly doubt it. When banks got rekt in Greece it did not change price of BTC at all
Price swings during that time (and there was quite a bit of market action back then) was rumored to be connected to the Greek situation. Could have been the usual suspects/whales tho.
If banks are not profitable, it is better to let them leave the market rather than to keep them artificially alive with preventive recapitalizations.
Countries can't afford to have banks depositors lose their money.
See, this is the thing that most "normal" people don't seem to grasp about the traditional banking system. Whether it ends up being a 'bail-in' or a 'bail-out', banks are still gambling your money away and failing. When they fail, it's still you who ends up paying for it. They still get paid vast sums and earn ridiculous bonuses whether they win or lose, you get poorer either way as they continue to print money from thin air towards the general direction of worthlessness. It's a parasitic sham.
Plus, a failed bank is a damning indictment of the sheer level of greed and incompetence in the finance sector. They literally have a licence to print money and they still somehow manage to go out of business? What the fuck is wrong with these people?
If there was a post of the month award, this would be a runner up this month.