US banks hold over $600 Billion in unrealized losses

Nothing a couple hours in the printer room can’t solve.

Shouldn’t whoever figured this out let them know?

Us banks hold trillions in assets

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Us banks hold trillions in assets

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The big 4 do. Regional banks do not.

Anyone who thinks we should tax unrealized gains should be asked what they think about unrealized losses.

It’s almost like when the government bails out firms that take big gambles and lose, it encourages all their competitors to behave the same, inevitably resulting in an over-leveraged industry with no risk management and a massive speculative bubble.

Nobody wants to talk about the elephant in the room, but this seems to have started with the GameStop (and the meme stocks) squeeze in 2021. "Stock shorts have infinite loss potential."

If the theory holds, those with short positions on GameStop and the others, never wanted to take a loss and thought their long proven psychological and algorithmic theories would eventually crush the companies and their stocks, and they could walk away with a mountain of profit. They didn't close their positions. They "covered" them and double, and tripled down.

As the can kept getting kicked, the cost keeps accumulating.

Here is the decoupling of Credit Suisse and UBS. One had GameStop shorting bags, the other didn't. Now UBS has them, what will happen to UBS?

Remains to be seen but, given that UBS got CS at a heavy discount, they may take the “gains” to offset some of CS’s losses and staunch the bleeding.

I think it's probably more than $600 billion. It would take a little work to add up all the low yield treasuries and bonds in all the banks across America to truly know how much bad crap is on their books.....I can guarantee their will be no call for mark to market accounting on this shite either.

I don’t think they realize this