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The Real Reason Fed Stress Tests Aren’t Credible

By Daily Bell Staff – June 23, 2016

Why the Fed’s Stress Tests Aren’t Credible … For the sixth year in a row, the U.S. Federal Reserve is conducting stress tests to see whether the country’s largest banks can withstand a severe crisis. If only the results, to be announced this week and next, were more useful.  -Bloomberg

Federal Reserve stress tests for banks are a fantasy.

They don’t address contagion, for one thing. Contagion makes everything much worse.

The Fed is now going to upgrade its stress test analysis.

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More advanced network analysis, such as that used by the Bank of Canada, can do a better job of addressing contagion effects. And to its credit, the Fed plans to increase the amount of capital required for the largest banks to pass