[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @tyillc Richard Field Richard Field posts on X about fed, fdic, losses, wall street the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and 1854 posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::255781485/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXX +137% - X Month XXXXXX +167% - X Months XXXXXXX -XX% - X Year XXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::255781485/posts_active)  - X Week XX -XX% - X Month XX +95% - X Months XXX -XXXX% - X Year XXX -XX% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::255781485/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +0.08% - X Month XXXXXX +0.26% - X Months XXXXXX +1.50% - X Year XXXXXX +2.80% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::255781485/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::255781485/influence) --- **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) [countries](/list/countries) **Social topic influence** [fed](/topic/fed), [fdic](/topic/fdic), [losses](/topic/losses), [wall street](/topic/wall-street), [china](/topic/china), [bnp paribas](/topic/bnp-paribas), [federal reserve](/topic/federal-reserve), [white house](/topic/white-house), [finance](/topic/finance), [happened](/topic/happened) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::255781485/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "While this write-up of what happened during the Great Financial Crisis is correct in some key respects (see the focus on preserving existing firms) it misses the elephant in the room. Why was there a risk of contagion across the financial system Opacity The opacity of structured finance securities meant nobody knew what the value of these securities was (BNP Paribas said this in August 2007). The opacity of the banks meant nobody knew which banks were solvent given they all had exposure to both the securities AND each other (see unwillingness of any single Wall Street firm or combination of"  [@tyillc](/creator/x/tyillc) on [X](/post/tweet/1947656386982068558) 2025-07-22 13:54:03 UTC 11K followers, XXX engagements "A $XXX billion slush fund for Trump to spend on anything he wants"  [@tyillc](/creator/x/tyillc) on [X](/post/tweet/1948044788751863942) 2025-07-23 15:37:25 UTC 11K followers, XXX engagements "@chigrl Surely this will work out well for the gamblers in the casino"  [@tyillc](/creator/x/tyillc) on [X](/post/tweet/1947422092812866024) 2025-07-21 22:23:02 UTC 11K followers, XXX engagements "@nnzp1730 It appears the Trump Team is out talking about a trade deal while we have heard little from Japan . could it be Japan doesn't want to embarrass the Trump Team by pointing out a number of differences between what they thought was agreed to and what Trump Team claiming"  [@tyillc](/creator/x/tyillc) on [X](/post/tweet/1948114317527646687) 2025-07-23 20:13:42 UTC 11K followers, XX engagements "Wonder if the Treasury Department will call me so we can talk about the role of #transparency in the financial system. When combined with making investors responsible for all losses on their investments it is the only known preventative for financial crises. Financial regulators are not up to the task. This was well known in the 1930s and the reason the US financial system was redesigned with transparency where investors know what they own as its foundation"  [@tyillc](/creator/x/tyillc) on [X](/post/tweet/1947456909134471331) 2025-07-22 00:41:23 UTC 11K followers, XXX engagements "Complexity is one mechanism by which Wall Street creates opacity. If something is too complicated to understand/analyze there is zero chance (other than pure luck) it is properly priced. And as you correctly observe complexity has increased massively . as a result so too has opacity in the financial system"  [@tyillc](/creator/x/tyillc) on [X](/post/tweet/1947691023682965887) 2025-07-22 16:11:41 UTC 11K followers, X engagements "The Fed has never been politically independent. I know this from first hand experience. In the early 1980s when I was there Volcker regularly consulted with the White House to be sure he was implementing policies they backed. We also know this from what Greenspan and several Fed governors have publicly said since 1980. The policies they choose reflect what their political masters want. The following comments by El-Erian need to be read as simply an Economist trying to protect his platform. If Treasury set monetary policy no one would care what the Economic profession had to say. By the way"  [@tyillc](/creator/x/tyillc) on [X](/post/tweet/1947782118957855006) 2025-07-22 22:13:39 UTC 11K followers, XXX engagements "You have skipped over my comments about how #transparency was adopted globally (with the exception of China) and how the Great Financial Crisis was an earthquake along the opacity fault lines in the global financial system. Investors including banks are suppose to be responsible for all losses on their investments. This gives investors the incentive to not take on more risk of loss than they can afford to lose. But how can investors restrain their risk taking when Wall Street spins its wonderful narratives. Trust but Verify. In exchange for taking on responsibility for losses investors are"  [@tyillc](/creator/x/tyillc) on [X](/post/tweet/1946956497050616088) 2025-07-20 15:32:56 UTC 11K followers, XX engagements "hmmm . in Denmark homes have to be sold to a Danish citizen"  [@tyillc](/creator/x/tyillc) on [X](/post/tweet/1946228620420125114) 2025-07-18 15:20:36 UTC 11K followers, XXX engagements "btw I did answer what was different between Bear and LEH. What Bear showed is there were significant losses on the subprime securities no one could value (see BNP Paribas in August 2007 saying could not be valued). What LEH showed is Wall Street firms had significant exposure to opaque securities and due to the opacity of the Wall Street firms no one knew if their exposure rendered them insolvent or not"  [@tyillc](/creator/x/tyillc) on [X](/post/tweet/1947692037005840585) 2025-07-22 16:15:42 UTC 11K followers, XX engagements "If we return monetary policy to Treasury where it belongs we could reduce the Fed PhD headcount by 90+%. If we send supervision/regulation to the FDIC where it would reinforce market discipline on the banks we could reduce headcount to only those needed to help support the payment system"  [@tyillc](/creator/x/tyillc) on [X](/post/tweet/1947297730247758258) 2025-07-21 14:08:52 UTC 11K followers, XXX engagements "@marketswithmay @QEDFIVE Dodd-Frank and all the regulations it produced did nothing to restore #transparency to the financial system . in fact the financial system is more opaque today than it was before the Great Financial Crisis started in 2007"  [@tyillc](/creator/x/tyillc) on [X](/post/tweet/1947419769696911419) 2025-07-21 22:13:49 UTC 11K followers, XX engagements "Yet another company falls for the "big order" from China myth . after transferring its technology to its Chinese partners Airbus will discover China has a Chinese competitor that wins the business"  [@tyillc](/creator/x/tyillc) on [X](/post/tweet/1945560922392596827) 2025-07-16 19:07:25 UTC 11K followers, 5186 engagements "Been tweeting about what the US financial system should look like after breaking up the Fed (sending monetary policy to Treasury where it belongs; supervision/regulation to FDIC to reinforce market discipline; leaves the Fed with the payment system)"  [@tyillc](/creator/x/tyillc) on [X](/post/tweet/1947746959856459854) 2025-07-22 19:53:57 UTC 11K followers, XXX engagements "A feature of the redesigned American financial system that was adopted by virtually every country with the exception of China is #transparency. Issuers are suppose to disclose the info investors need to be able to assess the risk of and potential return on their investment. Why should an investor assess the risk Because investors know in exchange for the info they need to make the assessment they are responsible for all losses on their investments. Included in the list of investors are banks pension funds PE funds . Each of them is supposed to do their due diligence and not take on any more"  [@tyillc](/creator/x/tyillc) on [X](/post/tweet/1946952617826918770) 2025-07-20 15:17:31 UTC 11K followers, XX engagements "@AlephBlog My call to break-up the Fed is finally being listened to . send supervision/regulation to the FDIC where it would reinforce market discipline . send monetary policy to Treasury where it belongs"  [@tyillc](/creator/x/tyillc) on [X](/post/tweet/1947756242610385039) 2025-07-22 20:30:50 UTC 11K followers, XX engagements "For those paying attention FDIC about to create a direct linkage between deposit insurance and crypto"  [@tyillc](/creator/x/tyillc) on [X](/post/tweet/1947334583856365856) 2025-07-21 16:35:19 UTC 11K followers, XXX engagements "Is there one trade "deal" Trump has announced that doesn't have the US paying a higher tariff on goods it imports from a country than the US was previously paying"  [@tyillc](/creator/x/tyillc) on [X](/post/tweet/1947808414177857546) 2025-07-22 23:58:09 UTC 11K followers, XXX engagements "Wait for it . wait for it . has Treasury Secretary Bessent been reading my timeline calling for a break-up of the Federal Reserve . (monetary policy goes back to Treasury where it belongs; supervision/regulation goes to FDIC where it reinforces market discipline)"  [@tyillc](/creator/x/tyillc) on [X](/post/tweet/1947285773364981778) 2025-07-21 13:21:21 UTC 11K followers, XXX engagements "@JDLove__ Nobody disputes the Fed is in the bankers' pocket . but then the White House and Congress tend to also be in the bankers' pocket"  [@tyillc](/creator/x/tyillc) on [X](/post/tweet/1948190700585050302) 2025-07-24 01:17:13 UTC 11K followers, X engagements "Think we agree monetary policy should go back to Treasury where it belongs. Supervision/regulation should go to FDIC where it reinforces market discipline. Leaves Fed with payment system. Ironically with this focus Fed should in fact be allowed to offer accounts to everyone. Of course this makes crypto valueless and reduces Trump's ability to accept graft"  [@tyillc](/creator/x/tyillc) on [X](/post/tweet/1948174112167235919) 2025-07-24 00:11:18 UTC 11K followers, 1405 engagements "Excuse but the issue always was everyone knew the banks were holding losses but what they didn't know due to opacity was the extent of the losses at each individual bank. When no bank would step up to take on LEH Wall Street sent the message the losses at every bank from marking their exposures to market rendered them insolvent"  [@tyillc](/creator/x/tyillc) on [X](/post/tweet/1947419246884983208) 2025-07-21 22:11:44 UTC 11K followers, XX engagements "Your point complexity makes assessing counterparty risk difficult if not impossible is spot on. However this supports rather than detracts from my comment about the opacity of the financial system. Complexity is one of Wall Street's proven methods for adding opacity to the system. When a financial instrument/counterparty is too complex to be assessed their risk will not be properly assessed. And exposure to them will be much higher than would be the case if they were not opaque (see our discussion on contagion)"  [@tyillc](/creator/x/tyillc) on [X](/post/tweet/1948029155754352867) 2025-07-23 14:35:18 UTC 11K followers, XX engagements
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@tyillc Richard Field
Richard Field posts on X about fed, fdic, losses, wall street the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and 1854 posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Engagements: XXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXX +137%
- X Month XXXXXX +167%
- X Months XXXXXXX -XX%
- X Year XXXXXXX -XX%
Mentions: XX #
- X Week XX -XX%
- X Month XX +95%
- X Months XXX -XXXX%
- X Year XXX -XX%
Followers: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXX +0.08%
- X Month XXXXXX +0.26%
- X Months XXXXXX +1.50%
- X Year XXXXXX +2.80%
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Social category influence finance countries
Social topic influence fed, fdic, losses, wall street, china, bnp paribas, federal reserve, white house, finance, happened
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"While this write-up of what happened during the Great Financial Crisis is correct in some key respects (see the focus on preserving existing firms) it misses the elephant in the room. Why was there a risk of contagion across the financial system Opacity The opacity of structured finance securities meant nobody knew what the value of these securities was (BNP Paribas said this in August 2007). The opacity of the banks meant nobody knew which banks were solvent given they all had exposure to both the securities AND each other (see unwillingness of any single Wall Street firm or combination of"
@tyillc on X 2025-07-22 13:54:03 UTC 11K followers, XXX engagements
"A $XXX billion slush fund for Trump to spend on anything he wants" @tyillc on X 2025-07-23 15:37:25 UTC 11K followers, XXX engagements
"@chigrl Surely this will work out well for the gamblers in the casino" @tyillc on X 2025-07-21 22:23:02 UTC 11K followers, XXX engagements
"@nnzp1730 It appears the Trump Team is out talking about a trade deal while we have heard little from Japan . could it be Japan doesn't want to embarrass the Trump Team by pointing out a number of differences between what they thought was agreed to and what Trump Team claiming" @tyillc on X 2025-07-23 20:13:42 UTC 11K followers, XX engagements
"Wonder if the Treasury Department will call me so we can talk about the role of #transparency in the financial system. When combined with making investors responsible for all losses on their investments it is the only known preventative for financial crises. Financial regulators are not up to the task. This was well known in the 1930s and the reason the US financial system was redesigned with transparency where investors know what they own as its foundation" @tyillc on X 2025-07-22 00:41:23 UTC 11K followers, XXX engagements
"Complexity is one mechanism by which Wall Street creates opacity. If something is too complicated to understand/analyze there is zero chance (other than pure luck) it is properly priced. And as you correctly observe complexity has increased massively . as a result so too has opacity in the financial system" @tyillc on X 2025-07-22 16:11:41 UTC 11K followers, X engagements
"The Fed has never been politically independent. I know this from first hand experience. In the early 1980s when I was there Volcker regularly consulted with the White House to be sure he was implementing policies they backed. We also know this from what Greenspan and several Fed governors have publicly said since 1980. The policies they choose reflect what their political masters want. The following comments by El-Erian need to be read as simply an Economist trying to protect his platform. If Treasury set monetary policy no one would care what the Economic profession had to say. By the way" @tyillc on X 2025-07-22 22:13:39 UTC 11K followers, XXX engagements
"You have skipped over my comments about how #transparency was adopted globally (with the exception of China) and how the Great Financial Crisis was an earthquake along the opacity fault lines in the global financial system. Investors including banks are suppose to be responsible for all losses on their investments. This gives investors the incentive to not take on more risk of loss than they can afford to lose. But how can investors restrain their risk taking when Wall Street spins its wonderful narratives. Trust but Verify. In exchange for taking on responsibility for losses investors are" @tyillc on X 2025-07-20 15:32:56 UTC 11K followers, XX engagements
"hmmm . in Denmark homes have to be sold to a Danish citizen" @tyillc on X 2025-07-18 15:20:36 UTC 11K followers, XXX engagements
"btw I did answer what was different between Bear and LEH. What Bear showed is there were significant losses on the subprime securities no one could value (see BNP Paribas in August 2007 saying could not be valued). What LEH showed is Wall Street firms had significant exposure to opaque securities and due to the opacity of the Wall Street firms no one knew if their exposure rendered them insolvent or not" @tyillc on X 2025-07-22 16:15:42 UTC 11K followers, XX engagements
"If we return monetary policy to Treasury where it belongs we could reduce the Fed PhD headcount by 90+%. If we send supervision/regulation to the FDIC where it would reinforce market discipline on the banks we could reduce headcount to only those needed to help support the payment system" @tyillc on X 2025-07-21 14:08:52 UTC 11K followers, XXX engagements
"@marketswithmay @QEDFIVE Dodd-Frank and all the regulations it produced did nothing to restore #transparency to the financial system . in fact the financial system is more opaque today than it was before the Great Financial Crisis started in 2007" @tyillc on X 2025-07-21 22:13:49 UTC 11K followers, XX engagements
"Yet another company falls for the "big order" from China myth . after transferring its technology to its Chinese partners Airbus will discover China has a Chinese competitor that wins the business" @tyillc on X 2025-07-16 19:07:25 UTC 11K followers, 5186 engagements
"Been tweeting about what the US financial system should look like after breaking up the Fed (sending monetary policy to Treasury where it belongs; supervision/regulation to FDIC to reinforce market discipline; leaves the Fed with the payment system)" @tyillc on X 2025-07-22 19:53:57 UTC 11K followers, XXX engagements
"A feature of the redesigned American financial system that was adopted by virtually every country with the exception of China is #transparency. Issuers are suppose to disclose the info investors need to be able to assess the risk of and potential return on their investment. Why should an investor assess the risk Because investors know in exchange for the info they need to make the assessment they are responsible for all losses on their investments. Included in the list of investors are banks pension funds PE funds . Each of them is supposed to do their due diligence and not take on any more" @tyillc on X 2025-07-20 15:17:31 UTC 11K followers, XX engagements
"@AlephBlog My call to break-up the Fed is finally being listened to . send supervision/regulation to the FDIC where it would reinforce market discipline . send monetary policy to Treasury where it belongs" @tyillc on X 2025-07-22 20:30:50 UTC 11K followers, XX engagements
"For those paying attention FDIC about to create a direct linkage between deposit insurance and crypto" @tyillc on X 2025-07-21 16:35:19 UTC 11K followers, XXX engagements
"Is there one trade "deal" Trump has announced that doesn't have the US paying a higher tariff on goods it imports from a country than the US was previously paying" @tyillc on X 2025-07-22 23:58:09 UTC 11K followers, XXX engagements
"Wait for it . wait for it . has Treasury Secretary Bessent been reading my timeline calling for a break-up of the Federal Reserve . (monetary policy goes back to Treasury where it belongs; supervision/regulation goes to FDIC where it reinforces market discipline)" @tyillc on X 2025-07-21 13:21:21 UTC 11K followers, XXX engagements
"@JDLove__ Nobody disputes the Fed is in the bankers' pocket . but then the White House and Congress tend to also be in the bankers' pocket" @tyillc on X 2025-07-24 01:17:13 UTC 11K followers, X engagements
"Think we agree monetary policy should go back to Treasury where it belongs. Supervision/regulation should go to FDIC where it reinforces market discipline. Leaves Fed with payment system. Ironically with this focus Fed should in fact be allowed to offer accounts to everyone. Of course this makes crypto valueless and reduces Trump's ability to accept graft" @tyillc on X 2025-07-24 00:11:18 UTC 11K followers, 1405 engagements
"Excuse but the issue always was everyone knew the banks were holding losses but what they didn't know due to opacity was the extent of the losses at each individual bank. When no bank would step up to take on LEH Wall Street sent the message the losses at every bank from marking their exposures to market rendered them insolvent" @tyillc on X 2025-07-21 22:11:44 UTC 11K followers, XX engagements
"Your point complexity makes assessing counterparty risk difficult if not impossible is spot on. However this supports rather than detracts from my comment about the opacity of the financial system. Complexity is one of Wall Street's proven methods for adding opacity to the system. When a financial instrument/counterparty is too complex to be assessed their risk will not be properly assessed. And exposure to them will be much higher than would be the case if they were not opaque (see our discussion on contagion)" @tyillc on X 2025-07-23 14:35:18 UTC 11K followers, XX engagements