The Mother Of All Bank Runs?

When investors don't trust even venerable institutions like Morgan
Stanley and Goldman Sachs, you know that the financial crisis is as
severe as ever. When a nuclear option of a monster $700 billion rescue
plan is not even able to rally stock markets, you know this is a global
crisis of confidence in the financial system.


The
next step of this panic could be the mother of all bank runs, i.e. a
run on the trillion dollar-plus of the cross-border short-term
interbank liabilities of the U.S. banking and financial system, as
foreign banks start to worry about the safety of their liquid exposures
to U.S. financial institutions. A silent cross-border bank run has
already started, as foreign banks are worried about the solvency of
U.S. banks and are starting to reduce their exposure. And if this run
accelerates--as it may now--a total meltdown of the U.S. financial
system could occur.

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