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May 2023
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Ram Ahluwalia Predicts MORE Bank Failure...

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About this episode

Ram Ahluwalia, CEO of Lumida Wealth Management, joins us for his second time on Bankless to discuss the latest bank failure and what it means for the rest of the traditional finance system.

Are there more failures to come? Can crypto save the banks? Why are politicians being quiet this time around? What will Powell do next? Answers to these questions and much more in the episode. 

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
8:30 Season Two of the Banking Crisis
10:38 First Republic Bank
13:00 Politicians Being Quiet? 
15:13 Ram's Slide Agenda
16:10 Co-Morbidities of Bank Failures 
23:40 Negative Equitites 
24:40 Publicly Traded Banks 
30:27 The Walls Preventing a Collapse 
35:40 The Banks' Mycelium Network
39:26 What's the Problem?
45:50 Commercial Real Estate 
47:10 The Next 2008?
50:10 CRE Risk
53:07 Arthur Hayes Take 
56:40 Balaji Take
1:01:13 Will Powell Blink?
1:03:20 How to Fix the Banks
1:09:35 How Crypto Saves the Banks?
1:12:55 Closing & Disclaimers

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Resources:

Ram Ahluwalia
https://twitter.com/ramahluwalia 

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