The Reality of Economics

Lew Rockwell reports:

The FDIC has admitted that some 829 banks remain at risk of failure. That's one in ten. Only 118 have failed this year but many more should have and would have absent Fed intervention. Meanwhile, there are no new banks started in the U.S. in the last quarter – the first time in 38 years that this has been true. As for the actual soundness of the banks, it's anyone's guess. How much bad debt they are carrying, with both lenders and borrowers agreeing to look the other way, is something that no one wants to know.