Banks gone wild: SVB, Signature and moral hazard

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 17 March 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank continues to ripple across banking and tech. Today, three indicators on the fallout, including what's next for some startup CEOs and why you might be hearing the term, moral hazard. And we talk about the other bank failure that's been overshadowed by SVB, New York-based Signature Bank.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:02.0	This is the Indicated From Planet Money, I'm Darien Woods.
0:14.0	And I'm Adrian Ma, it is Friday which means it's time for Indicators the Week.
0:18.4	And joining us this time we got producer Brutany Kronin.
0:21.5	Hello.
0:22.5	Hi.
0:23.5	What's up?
0:24.5	It's good to have you here for our three Indicators which are all about the big, big story of
0:29.3	the last week Silicon Valley banks collapse and the continuing fallout and banking.
0:35.3	That's right.
0:36.3	So after the break we're going to look at what some startups are doing to try and pick
0:40.0	up the pieces.
0:41.0	Mindicator is about questions being raised around moral hazard.
0:44.6	And Mindicator is about signature bank and Barney.
0:48.0	We all make mistakes, but we can make most anything right again when we have some help
0:53.5	from our good friends.
0:55.8	I'm so...
0:56.8	Not that Barney, a different Barney.
1:00.0	It checks out if your friends are the government.
1:02.4	I was going to say that's a pretty on point for this week.
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