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Re:The entire Silicon Valley Bank debacle was started by a s... by AtlasBarfed on Saturday March 11, 2023 @07:48PM (#35114901)
It's only a bad thing if there are shorts on the side from the big whales who started pulling levers. I mean, would ANYTHING be done about it? No.

And if the bank could be propped despite what the evil soloblogger power-tweeted, would the gov't prop it up? Yeah. Oh wait, unless some powerful people influenced the govt not too...

I was just trying to retrace the "Global. Coordinated. Recession." Tweet from a few months back, which got walked back. Is a banking crisis an attempt to make another recession since inflation, rate hikes, etc aren't doing a very good job?

Re:The entire Silicon Valley Bank debacle was started by a s... by jacknews on Saturday March 11, 2023 @07:53PM (#35114945)
Let's see how govt. handles this. I think if they just stand by, we can maybe assume that this kind of consequence is sort-of a deliberate part of the rate policy.