In 2021, Silicon Valley Bank started purchasing long-dated higher risk assets in order to increase returns for customers. Over the next year that strategy backfired when the Fed drastically started increasing interest rates which lowered the value of the banks assets. In early March 2023, the bank announced they sold a large portion of its assets at a loss and would need funding. That news spooked depositors and led to a bank run. A few days later, regulators and the FDIC shut down the bank, pledged to make depositors whole, but would not bail out the management or investors in the bank. Silicon Valley Bank is considered to be the 2nd largest bank failure in US history.
35% Yes |
65% No |
22% Yes |
60% No |
14% Yes, customers should be fully reimbursed but management and investors should be wiped out |
5% No, the bank should fail and customers should receive no more than $250k of their deposits |
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No, and nationalize the banks
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I would have to research more information on this topic.
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Customers should be fully reimbursed, but management and investors should be wiped out. This is an opportunity to transform banks with poor business practices into democratic credit unions run by workers and customers in order to maximize transparency and stability.
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Not an issue I know about/care about
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Not aware of this issue.
@99RN8J91yr1Y
I am uneducated on this issue
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