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May 2023
31m 17s

American Bank Carnage part 2

DAVID MCWILLIAMS & JOHN DAVIS
About this episode
The American banking system is experiencing a slow grinding crisis. We explore, why this is happening, why now and why the Fed adopted a completely different attitude to the 2023 banking crisis than the 2008 crisis and what this all means for the economy and the way we distribute money around the 21st century economy. And further out, could Apple - the great disrupter - be poised to disrupt Wall Street?

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