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McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Downturn

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And if you're a bank, guess who is conveniently standing by ready to fix it for you with an army of $2000 an hour consultants? McKinsey. Same exact scam as the shady mechanic who wants charge you $400 to flush your transmission fluid and convinces you that your car will surely blow up if you don't do it.

2k/hr?????

Re: McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Downturn

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I look at 8 year automotive loans, and I wonder- who is about to get screwed. People with jobs at gas stations buying new $30k vehicles. Either inflation is about to get bad, and our parents/Grandparents lose big or deflation happens and young people are screwed. Are there any other options?

People stop with all the fear mongering and there's another decade of slow and steady growth.

AKA, it’s different this time.

Re: McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Downturn

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Not that I disagree. Its same pattern: half of the universities, most of liberal art colleges, 60% of IT companies, 70% of private Doctor practices and so on are too weak to survive next shock. The only sad part I see is nasty businesses like McKinsey is not fitting in any pattern of failure.

So is the housing market, so are people who've take up ungodly debt

Re: McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Downturn

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We can always make more money if we really want to. The economy might run out of oil, sand, gold, land, and willpower but it will never run out of money until the central banks stop the money supply or politicians cause a hard fault.

No wonder you are hiding behind a throwaway, as you clearly don’t know what you’re talking about and are just posting mindless drivel. If you want to know the outcome of “we can always make more money” attitudes, look no further than Zimbabwe. In ~2007 they had a 50 cent paper note. ~6 months later a common paper note was $10,000,000,000. Just a short while after that, paper notes were being printed in one hundred tr…

Zimbabwe did not run out of money.

I did not say that a bank can make everybody rich by printing money just that there is no limit to the money that the banks can print, as is evidenced by Zimbabwe. They ran out of everything else but not money. We are basically expressing the same thing from different viewpoints.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Zimbabwe doesn’t have the US military backing its debt.

So if the economy gets bad its the job of the US military to invade something to get their resources?

Yes. It's like clockwork. The US is coming due for another war soon.

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It amazes me how long and how slowly the value of our money can be eroded without casing a hard crash. This has been going on for over 100 years in the US. Money used to pay things used to be gold, then fully gold backed, then partially gold backed, then no gold but security backed, then securities are diluted more and more. The next logical steps would be that the central banks buy up the bankrupt economy and introd…

Right, because everything was so much better when you could, for no particularly good reason, relate money to a marginally useful-to-jewellers-and-dentists soft metal. I suppose I shouldn't expect economic literacy on Hacker News, but the twist on the standard goldbug narrative ("social credit backed by surveillance") is at least original, if nutty.

I did not say that gold backed currency is better for everybody. I'm just amazed at the time span over which the dilution is happening. And I don't think that anybody can deny that our money is slowly losing its purchasing power.

Re: McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Downturn

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post #44

And if you're a bank, guess who is conveniently standing by ready to fix it for you with an army of $2000 an hour consultants? McKinsey. Same exact scam as the shady mechanic who wants charge you $400 to flush your transmission fluid and convinces you that your car will surely blow up if you don't do it.

2k/hr?????

Yeah

Re: McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Downturn

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reimbursement compression along with EHR/EMR requirements has seen a lot of practices acquired by large health systems.

Not to get too bogged down with details, but this winter she is looking to change EMR systems. The current one is the most expensive/established EMR for her field. Rent is 12,000 dollars of expenses. EMR is almost trivial.

Vast majority of private practices are closing or being purchased by larger hospital systems.

Re: McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Downturn

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post #44

And if you're a bank, guess who is conveniently standing by ready to fix it for you with an army of $2000 an hour consultants? McKinsey. Same exact scam as the shady mechanic who wants charge you $400 to flush your transmission fluid and convinces you that your car will surely blow up if you don't do it.

Yeah, and I was gonna say, "McKinsey's same study revealed that the other half of banks are all McKinsey clients in good standings..."
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