- Few regional banks hedged rate risk, so most need to raise fresh capital
- At current bank valuations, that requires massive equity dilution
- Declining NIM and increased loan losses are coming next
- Only the Fed can prevent a vicious circle and ongoing credit tightening (and they think they don’t want to)
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