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🗓️ 17 March 2023
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In a matter of a few days, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed when a panic set in, causing a run on deposits. “The blue chip VCs suggested something, then that leaked to other ones, then other ones — we had all our investors calling us and basically demanding we pull our cash,” one source told Ryan Grim. This week on Deconstructed, Grim is joined by Damon Silvers, who has been involved in trying to prevent financial fraud and crisis for more than 20 years. He was the deputy chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the 2008 bank bailout, and was formerly the policy director of the AFL-CIO.
Grim and Silver discuss what led to a rush of Silicon Valley Bank depositors withdrawing all at once, the subsequent fallout, how the weakening of Dodd–Frank in 2018 paved the way for the current banking crisis, and what reforms are needed to prevent a future and even bigger economic catastrophe.
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0:30.0 | The Silicon Valley Bank debacle might be the most pitch-perfect encapsulation of everything that's wrong |
0:41.0 | with our current financial, social, and political systems all at once. |
0:45.0 | I'm Ryan Grimm, and we'll be unpacking that meltdown on today's deconstructed. |
0:49.0 | One of the incredible feats of today's tech moguls is to somehow manage to make the old |
0:54.0 | robber barons look downright civic-minded by comparison. |
0:58.0 | So during the panic of 1907, before there was a central bank, |
1:02.0 | J.P. Morgan famously gathered together the country's biggest bankers |
1:05.0 | and persuaded them all to put their own capital on the line to restore confidence in the financial system. |
1:11.0 | A populist movement followed by demanding the creation of the Federal Reserve to take power out of their hands. |
1:17.0 | But it's impossible to even conceive of today's robber barons putting their capital on the line, |
1:22.0 | and last week, it quickly became every man for himself, |
1:25.0 | with billionaires telling each other there was no downside to pulling their money from Silicon Valley Bank, |
1:29.0 | so they might as well just do it and do it quickly. |
1:32.0 | It's striking that the collapse of the bank that fuels much of the business in Silicon Valley |
1:37.0 | and the resulting threat of contagion didn't strike these radical, |
1:41.0 | randy, and libertarians as something that might qualify as a downside. |
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