#403: Dissecting the Banking Crisis with Parker Lewis
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Join Marty as he sits down with Parker Lewis to break down the causes of the banking crisis from first principles.
Follow Parker on Twitter: https://twitter.com/parkeralewis
9:15 - Is it happening?
11:40 - The Fed caused bank failures, not crypto
19:15 - SVB balance sheet
24:49 - History of bank cash assets
30:07 - How QE is done without QE
38:51 - The cycles accelerate every time
44:52 - The system is built for moral hazard
49:39 - Trust in traditional money is failing
57:06 - Will Bitcoin be blamed?
1:00:54 - Bitcoiners shouldn't waste their time
1:03:42 - Bitcoin's most important next steps
1:09:57 - Bitcoin Takeover
1:13:34 - Bitcoin is more important than ever
1:18:12 - QE5 is here
1:23:13 - Wrapping up
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| 0:00.0 | So, |
| 0:05.7 | This up for your boy, Marty here to introduce this emergency rip of TFTC. |
| 0:09.8 | A lot going on in the world right now. |
| 0:12.7 | There's a banking crisis underway, unless you were living under a rock. |
| 0:19.4 | If you are, if you have been, good for you. |
| 0:24.9 | You get to miss out on all this. |
| 0:26.2 | This fun stuff. |
| 0:27.2 | It's not fun. |
| 0:28.2 | It's serious. |
| 0:29.7 | I brought Parker back on because this is the theme of our conversation over the last, gosh, five years. |
| 0:37.7 | You can focus in on the individual crises, |
| 0:42.0 | whether it be 2008, |
| 0:45.4 | 2020, |
| 0:46.6 | the crisis we're going now and going through now |
| 0:49.3 | and try to point out individual actors, |
| 0:52.5 | whether it be Silicon Valley Bank signature as bad actors or bad risk |
| 0:58.0 | managers. But the overarching theme that underlies all these crises is the Federal Reserve |
| 1:03.6 | and their policy. These crises are inevitable with this policy. Parker breaks it all down. |
| 1:09.7 | In this episode, but before we get to the rip, |
| 1:14.6 | I do want to read the top four boosts in the last episode with Lynn Alden, which was titled |
| 1:20.2 | The Fed is Losing Money. So very good back-to-back if you want to get an understanding for the Fed |
| 1:27.3 | losing money money and then |
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