Deutsche Bank Share Price
Deutsche Bank Share Price (Green Line) Versus Citigroup (Orange Line) Since 2007
Deutsche Bank is starting to resemble the financial basket case that Citigroup became in 2008, leading to Citigroup's partial ownership by the U.S. government for a time and the bank requiring the largest taxpayer bailout in U.S. financial history. Citigroup's teetering condition and its interconnectedness to other mega banks played a critical role in the Wall Street crash and collapse of the U.S. economy.

That Deutsche Bank (which is highly interconnected to other major Wall Street banks and locked and loaded with tens of trillions of dollars in derivatives) is now showing the same kind of stresses as Citigroup back in 2008, raises the obvious question about just how effectively the Obama administration has reined in systemic financial risk after six years of reassurances that Dodd-Frank financial reform was getting the job done.

On this date a year ago, Deutsche Bank's stock closed at $34.88. Its share price at the open this morning on the New York Stock Exchange was $12.56, a loss of 64 percent in one year's time. But from June 1 of 2007, prior to the onset of the financial crisis, Deutsche Bank has lost a whopping 90 percent of its share value, right on par with Citigroup.

As of this morning's open, Deutsche Bank has a measly $17.32 billion in equity capital versus a portfolio of derivatives amounting to just shy of $50 trillion notional (face amount) as of December 31, 2015.

This is how we reported Citigroup's situation on November 24, 2008:

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