$845 Trillion Derivative Crisis as U.S. Banks Prepare for Bail-Ins
- Marcus Nikos
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$845 Trillion Derivative Crisis as U.S. Banks Prepare for Bail-Ins
The global derivatives market: $845 trillion, according to the BIS.
Derivative exposure up 16% in 2025 alone.
Shadow banks now hold 50% of all global financial assets. No regulation. No oversight. No transparency.
Banks are using synthetic risk transfers to move losses off their books and onto your pension fund.
Regulators are just now raising red flags. The market has already metastasized.
The FDIC's deposit insurance fund can't cover more than 2-3 midsize bank failures.
Bail-in laws making depositors the backstop are already legal in the United States.
They passed them quietly after 2008. They knew this day would come.
Taylor Kenney breaks down the architecture that's already in place, who's really holding the risk, and why the next crisis won't look like a bailout. It'll look like a seizure.


