Small businesses face 41-57% rejection rates for basic trade finance while the same banks hold $192 trillion in derivatives positions. Basel III treats a letter of credit backing real goods as riskier than abstract financial instruments that produce nothing. The system works exactly as designed: extracting value from those who create it, denying credit to those who need it most.
The Credit Famine: How Modern Banking Starves Real Commerce
Modern banking systematically transformed from credit creator to deliberate gatekeeper, engineering $2.5 trillion trade finance gap while earning billions from derivatives.
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