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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: MrPlunger   😊 😞
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Subject: Apple Goldman account
Date: 04/18/23 4:42 AM
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finance.yahoo.com - Apple launches high yield savings account with goldman in payments push

So AAPL with it's customer base of 1.36 million comfortably off customers globally ... will be marketing this account paying 4.15% at Goldman's FDIC insured bank. No doubt with some super fintech like access features. What's not to like?

What's not to like is the average bank paying less than 1% while money funds are also offering well over 4%. But if those banks have lent money out or bought securities earning less than 4% ... they simply can't compete. So either by losing deposits or by losing capital ... they will have to contract lending, contracting the money supply ... squeezing the economy ... even more than the Fed is doing by their balance sheet rundown.

Slow burning stockmarket time bomb ticking away?

... or offset by infrastructure spending??
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