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Bernie Sanders statement on Silicon Valley Bank. (Original Post) usonian Mar 2023 OP
Vulture capitalist - I like it! nt Phoenix61 Mar 2023 #1
+1000 roamer65 Mar 2023 #2
+1,000,000 diva77 Mar 2023 #3
Good for Bernie: supporting Biden standing up to Wall Street and fighting for working families! betsuni Mar 2023 #4
Biden administration had already announced that the depositors wouldn't be protected by taxpayers pnwmom Mar 2023 #5
NO "more socialism for the rich" KS Toronado Mar 2023 #6
I hope President Biden comes out today and points his finger too Emile Mar 2023 #7
Bernie nails it... again!! InAbLuEsTaTe Mar 2023 #8
...Now Comes the Bail-Out SorellaLaBefana Mar 2023 #9

betsuni

(28,443 posts)
4. Good for Bernie: supporting Biden standing up to Wall Street and fighting for working families!
Mon Mar 13, 2023, 03:21 AM
Mar 2023
Thanks, President Biden!

pnwmom

(110,122 posts)
5. Biden administration had already announced that the depositors wouldn't be protected by taxpayers
Mon Mar 13, 2023, 03:44 AM
Mar 2023

but by the US banking system, which includes Wall Street.

So, this is a good statement, but we should be giving the Biden administration the credit it's due.

Emile

(38,269 posts)
7. I hope President Biden comes out today and points his finger too
Mon Mar 13, 2023, 04:54 AM
Mar 2023

at the 2018 bank deregulation bill signed by Donald Trump!

SorellaLaBefana

(430 posts)
9. ...Now Comes the Bail-Out
Mon Mar 13, 2023, 08:32 AM
Mar 2023

Heather discusses this in her usual exemplary manner


...Secretary Yellen has signed off on measures to enable the FDIC to fully protect everyone who had money in Silicon Valley Bank, Santa Clara, California, and Signature Bank, New York. They will have access to all of their money starting Monday, March 13. None of the losses associated with this resolution, the statement said, “will be borne by the taxpayer...”

Over the weekend, the crisis at SVB became a larger argument over the role of government in the protection of the economy. Tech leaders took to social media to insist that the government must cover all the deposits in the failed bank, not just the ones covered under FDIC. They warned that the companies whose deposits were uninsured would fail, taking down the rest of the economy with them.

Others noted that the very men who were arguing the government should protect all the depositors’ money, not just that protected under the FDIC, have been vocal in opposing both government regulation of their industry and government relief for student loan debt, suggesting that they hate government action…except for themselves. They also pointed out that in 2018, under Trump, Congress weakened government regulations for banks like SVB and that SVB’s president had been a leading advocate for weakening those regulations. Had those regulations been in place, they argue, SVB would have remained solvent...

And, perhaps even more important, the weekend of panic and fear over the collapse of just one major bank should make it clear that the Republicans’ threat to default on the U.S. debt, thus pulling the rug out from under the entire U.S. economy unless they get their way, is simply unthinkable.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-12-2023



She does not, however, point out what I see as the smokescreen statement that no taxpayer dollars will go to the bailout, as the losses will be covered by an assessment on all banks.

Banks have no money of their own.

Banks have only Other People's Money. Thus, whilst the money paid to these thieves will not come directly from taxes, it will none-the-less come from the rest of us.
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