Without the loans that they provide, we would not even have a functioning economy.  So the health of our banks is of paramount importance.  Today, there are more than 4,000 banks in the United States, and maybe a few hundred of them could be considered healthy.  Most of our banks fully understand that they are in really deep trouble, and they are feverishly trying to avoid the same fate as Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic Bank.  The following are 3 things that troubled U.S. banks are doing as they scramble to survive…

#1 Troubled U.S. Banks Are Dramatically Tightening Lending Standards

I warned my readers that a credit crunch would be coming, and that is precisely what we are witnessing.