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Should the government provide a bailout for Silicon Valley Bank?

In 2021, Silicon Valley Bank started purchasing long-dated higher risk assets in order to increase returns for customers. Over the next year that strategy backfired when the Fed drastically started increasing interest rates which lowered the value of the banks assets. In early March 2023, the bank announced they sold a large portion of its assets at a loss and would need funding. That news spooked depositors and led to a bank run. A few days later, regulators and the FDIC shut down the bank, pledged to make depositors whole, but would not bail out the management or investors in the bank. Silicon Valley Bank is considered to be the 2nd largest bank failure in US history.

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Yes
65%
No
22%
Yes
60%
No
14%
Yes, customers should be fully reimbursed but management and investors should be wiped out
5%
No, the bank should fail and customers should receive no more than $250k of their deposits

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 @99R564Y from Washington  answered…3yrs3Y

No, and nationalize the banks

 @99RZ6BF from Massachusetts  answered…3yrs3Y

yes,and no because they did fail but make them keep like 1.2 (*insert good amount of money*) dollars so they don't lose it or else nope

 @99RLBLT from West Virginia  answered…3yrs3Y

I am uneducated on this issue.

 @99RDMZQ from Wisconsin  answered…3yrs3Y

i have no idea??

 @99PXP2R from Minnesota  answered…3yrs3Y

Not too informed on the subject

 @7PTCG38 from Wisconsin  answered…3yrs3Y

No, the bank should fail and only customers (depositors) should be fully reimbursed by regulators and the FDIC

 @99T57VM from North Carolina  answered…3yrs3Y

no because its the feds fault in the first place and then the money would be coming from tax payers.

 @99SJRQ2 from California  answered…3yrs3Y

they should be penalized

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