Scary to see with a fractional reserve banking system.
But isn’t most of these “missing” deposits making it to money market funds? Rates started to rise right when these deposits started to disappear right?
Correct. A lot went into MMFs. But this money was attracted by yields moving higher due to the sell-off before.
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Money moving from bank deposit accounts into MMFs seems extremely logical given the interest rate diffs.
I’d also heard that crypto earn accounts were causing big drawdowns in deposits last cycle. No one wants to let their money sit at 0%
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