By Graham Summers, MBA
Something doesn’t add up.
The Fed and Treasury keep telling us everything is fine… but the Fed has just expanded its balance sheet by $400+ billion in the span of two weeks.
We haven’t seen money printing like this since the depth of the 2020 meltdown. The Fed has erased 2/3rds of its 9 month long Quantitative Tightening in 14 days!
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Despite these emergency loans/ access to credit, the regional banking ETF is right back near its panic lows.
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Even stranger, several of the big banks are collapsing in share price as well. Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Citigroup are all back at their October lows.
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Looking at this, it appears something MAJOR is brewing behind the scenes. Banks might less than 14% of the S&P 500 weighting, but they account for something like 70% of all mortgages and 60% of all consumer loans.
Put simply, if this sector is in major trouble, it’s going to have a MAJOR effect on the economy.
Indeed, from a BIG PICTURE perspective my proprietary Crash Trigger is now on the first confirmed “Sell” signal since 2008.
This signal has only registered THREE times in the last 25 years: in 2000, 2008 and today.
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