The Great News About the SVB Collapse
Ramsey Everyday Millionaires
Ramsey Network
4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Smart Vester. |
| 0:07.0 | You're listening to Ramsey Everyday Millionaires, where we talk investing, retirement, building |
| 0:14.6 | wealth, and outrageous generosity. |
| 0:17.8 | George, I was not going to talk about this news story, but apparently people are doing |
| 0:21.4 | stupid, butt things because of this news story, so now we have to talk about it. |
| 0:26.0 | Yes, so we're not a news network, but we wanted to maybe quote some of the fears that |
| 0:30.6 | are out there that have been sparked due to the SVB fallout. |
| 0:35.3 | So for those that don't know Dave, can you do like and explain like I'm five as to what |
| 0:38.8 | happened with the Silicon Valley bank collapse? |
| 0:42.0 | Yes. |
| 0:43.0 | Okay, Silicon Valley Bank was collapsed on last week, last Thursday, I guess it was, and |
| 0:50.8 | the reason was pretty simple. |
| 0:52.9 | Number one, you need to understand this about their bank. |
| 0:56.8 | The vast majority of the customers in that bank were hedge funds, venture capitalists, |
| 1:01.4 | and tech startups. |
| 1:02.4 | They were not mom and pop. |
| 1:05.2 | Granny's CD was not over at this bank. |
| 1:09.2 | It's not who they catered to. |
| 1:11.1 | Okay? |
| 1:12.1 | So to put that in perspective, FDIC insurance of 250,000 covers your up to 250,000, the government |
| 1:17.6 | covers your deposits in the event of a bank failure. |
| 1:20.7 | The typical bank, it covers 75 to 80% of the deposits. |
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