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> interest rates going up from historic lows. > That’s profoundly bad risk management. Well, yes. But it's also bad economic policy. The banking sector just h
by G3rn0ti 3y ago
> interest rates going up from historic lows.
> That’s profoundly bad risk management.
Well, yes. But it's also bad economic policy. The banking sector just happened to have adapted to a decade of low interest rates. Then during the Covid crisis of 2020 the FED pumped dollars like crazy into the markets [1] -- adding fuel to the fire. If you set bad incentives you'll harvest bad behavior. That is the tragedy of FED-style economic planning in a nutshell.
[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttrends.htm https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...