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This is a general notice, you had done nothing wrong. Happy New Year! Lemonaka (talk) 18:36, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Lemonaka: Happy new year to you also! And thanks. Thelisteninghand (talk) 16:54, 14 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

2023 global banking crisis

Take a look—and please edit/cleanup as you see fit—at the 2023 global banking crisis. As you know, it was deleted following an AfD... and then, the old purely US-scoped article was moved to the globally-focused title. However, the prose there was 90+ percent US focused.

So I have made a first pass at trying to get the global bits explicated in the article. It still has (probably, way too much) US-centric content; some of it redundant. But I did not want to start a war with the former editors of the US-banking only article so have pretty much left all of the US stuff intact in my initial edits. Cheers. N2e (talk) 12:14, 6 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@N2e: Thanks for the heads up. I am surprised and slightly confused by this after the deletion - but it's good sense I think. Quite a piece of work ahead I agree - looks good at first glance. I'm updating on India's interest rate decision. Further comments on article talk page. Thelisteninghand (talk) 19:49, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@N2e: You might want to check the page next time you're here. I've made some repairs after other edits deleted stuff. Hey-ho. Cheers.Thelisteninghand (talk) 20:41, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

THanks for the ping. I have no problem with your changes. However, I find the article as a whole has devolved in the direction of "[Article title] was caused by [some US bank failures]."—which I don't think is true. A more complete view had been represented in the article earlier; and some bunch of edits has moved it back to a mostly US-bank-failure-precipitated problem.

The several US banking failures were merely a proximate cause of the 12-17 March tipping point leading to the global banking crises, and many banks scrambling for liquid assets to stem the tide of large withdrawls, and the large Central Banks creating supposed new reserves to "loan" to the banks. The US banks are certainly not root cause of this global banking crises. So, on the whole, the article is back to overemphasizing some large US bank failures in March, and has lost a lot of the background that it had a week or two earlier on the involvement of the banking regulators in both setting a loose monetary environment, selling how the "inflation was a transitory phenomenon", driving many banks to put their capital reserves into sovereign bonds, then rapidly raising interest rates over ten+ months, and making those banks (hundreds of bank) have large capital losses IF they mark their portfolios to market. Silver...(forgot the name) Bank and Silicon Valley Bank were merely the first banks to hit the fan. Many sources supported and still support the richer/deeper view.

THe article is now back to parroting the government-proclaimed view: [there's just a problem with a few sector specific banks, who didn't do something right, and too many tech firms, and cryptocurrency industry service providers, etc. Nothing to see here; move on.]" But this is essentially political, and there are plenty of ppl (& editors) who want that line to prevail. Wikipedia is poor at handling politically charged topics. And I mostly stay away from 'em, 'cause its really hard to get a good article in place with political incentives leading to contrary messaging fights. Cheers. N2e (talk) 00:53, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. If you looked at the history you might have seen the hilarious downgrade of the 'Global Spread' section title to 'Concerns' which starts with the collapse of Credit Suisse - as if it didn't happen... I'm trying to keep stuff in shape, if you've any time for vigilance it'd be welcome! (on the talk page - global spread a 'coincidence' ha ha ha) Thanks. Thelisteninghand (talk) 20:29, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Worth citing https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01291-8

@N2e: Move discussion on page.Thelisteninghand (talk) 19:50, 27 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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