Regional banks are cracking under the weight of their own greed and incompetence — again. Fraudulent lending, shady borrowers, and a trail of bad decisions have the economy flirting with disaster. The timing couldn’t be worse: our domestic economy is already gasping after Trump’s self-own of a tariff war, and the global markets are just as shaky. Normally, we’d have smart people at the wheel trying to prevent a crash. But now? We’ve got a confederacy of idiots pressing the gas pedal.
They may have broken the banks again — and Trump’s too dumb to fix it
When fraud, stupidity, and economic decay collide
Oct 17, 2025











