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Welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Tuesday, March 14th, 2023.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Ryan Denison.

On Monday, spurred by the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, President Biden addressed the nation

in the wake of the ongoing banking crisis

to reassure Americans that we can have confidence that the banking system is safe. Your deposits

will be there when you need them. Unfortunately, the stock market disagreed. Trading on more than a dozen

small to mid-sized banks was forced to halt after prices continued to freefall.

However, the crisis seems fueled less by the fears of an impending bank run depleting available cash.

Emergency measures taken by the government over the weekend appear to have largely staved off that fear,

then by concerns that what happened at Silicon Valley Bank last

Thursday is a sign that the Fed's attempt to control inflation through interest rate hikes

may be cracking the banking system. A closer look at what went wrong last week shows that such fears

are not entirely unfounded. To understand the scope of the crisis that began last Thursday, it's important to note that Silicon Valley Bank was not a normal bank.

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