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Silicon Valley Bank
May 16, 2023
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Timothy Noah
These Bankers Are So Unapologetic, Even Republicans Can’t Stand Them
The Silicon Valley Bank and Signature chiefs admitted no blame at a Senate hearing, bringing out the sadist in everybody.
May 16, 2023
Prem Thakker
John Fetterman Asks Bank Execs if CEOs Who Crash Banks Should Get Work Requirements
The Pennsylvania senator challenged former executives from Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank about the bank collapses.
May 2, 2023
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Timothy Noah
The Executives Who Got Rich While Their Banks Collapsed
Captains go down with the ship, but not these guys at First Republic, Silicon Valley Bank, and Signature Bank.
May 1, 2023
Apocalypse Soon
Kate Aronoff
The Fossil Fuel Industry Needs an FDIC
Unlike First Republic Bank, struggling drillers don’t have a government safety net to keep them from passing their crises on to the public.
May 1, 2023
Tori Otten
First Republic Becomes the Latest Bank to Fool Around and Find Out
The firm becomes the latest financial institution to get in on 2023’s hot new trend of risky decisions leading to total failure.
April 17, 2023
Prem Thakker
Trump’s Plans for the Federal Workforce: Weird Tests and Mass Firings
America’s top civics knower also promises to pile on more corporate deregulation—even after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the derailment in East Palestine.
April 1, 2023
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Jason Linkins
A Mammoth Meatball of Plutocratic Failure
This is how modern life became one big trash pile—and what it will take to extricate ourselves from the rubbish.
March 20, 2023
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Timothy Noah
What Changed Fed Chair Jerome Powell From Hero to Goat in One Week?
Before the SVB collapse, Powell was taming inflation without harming the U.S. economy. Now it’s fair to ask whether Biden should fire him.
March 18, 2023
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Jason Linkins
What the Right Got Wrong About “Woke” Banks
Conservatives raced to push a weird myth that the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was a result of its diverse workforce. Next time: Google.
March 17, 2023
Prem Thakker
Democrats Who Pushed for Financial Deregulation Seem to Have No Regrets After Silicon Valley Bank
The Democrats who joined Republicans in rolling back Dodd-Frank seem perfectly fine with their vote, even after SVB’s collapse.
March 14, 2023
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Matt Ford
Silicon Valley’s Titans Are Realizing a Lot of People Really Don’t Like Them
A bank run led to a wake-up call for America’s most coddled class of plutocrats.
March 13, 2023
Prem Thakker
Republicans Who Pushed for Financial Deregulation Blame Silicon Valley Bank Collapse on “Woke Agenda”
A list of Republicans blaming the bank failure on wokeness, contrasted with their own record.
March 13, 2023
Tori Otten
The Right’s Desperate Attempt to Blame the Silicon Valley Bank Collapse on Diversity
A note to Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and others: Find a new scapegoat.
March 13, 2023
Prem Thakker
Trump’s Rollback of Dodd-Frank Regulations Directly Led to the Silicon Valley Bank Failure
This is what happens when you deregulate checks on financial institutions.
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