One year ago in March 2023, Silicon Valley Bank melted down, quickly followed by similar meltdowns at Signature Bank and First Republic Bank. Measured by the nominal size of bank assets, these were three of the biggest four US bank failures in history. (The failure of Washington Mutual Bank in 2008 remains the largest.) Was…
One Year Since the Meltdown at Silicon Valley Bank: Commercial Real Estate and Ongoing Threats
One Year Since the Meltdown at Silicon Valley Bank: Commercial Real Estate and Ongoing Threats
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in budget deficits, business cycles, economic history, Euro crisis, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, Public Choice Tags: asymmetric information, bank runs, banking panics, deposit insurance, economics of central banking, Keynesian macroeconomics, moral hazard, Post-Keynesian macroeconomics
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