Category Archives: Risk and risk management

The Financial Crisis of 2023: Protecting Big Finance, Coming and Going

The financial system needs to provide a safe place for businesses to place their reserves and working capital.

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Austerity for the Plebes, Bank Rescues for the Rich

The bank panic is proving to be an exercise in class warfare that may well wind up further strengthening the right.

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What’s Actually Behind the Banking Crisis? Why You Pay When They Play.

Law and economics expert Walker Todd explains how a financialized system creates havoc and why it’s time to rethink banking

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The Fed Accused of ‘Playing With Fire’ After Latest Rate Hike

The Fed confirms that its priority is crushing workers, and it believes it’s protected banks enough to allow it to continue.

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How the Current Refusal to Deal Harshly with Failing Banks and Their Executives Will Create an Even Bigger Crisis

Why the expected official response to this bank panic wil make matters much worse, just not right away.

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Were the Bank Bailouts the Result of Rising Wealth Concentration?

Are many of the explanations of the recent bank tsuris barkign up the wrong tree?

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Michael Hudson Talks to Ben Norton About SVB and Bank Failures

Michael Hudson gives a wide-ranging talk on SVB and other recent bank collapses, focusing on the considerable role of misguided Fed policies

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Satyajit Das: SVB Collapse and Bank Turmoil – Latest Chapter in the Unwinding

Peeling back more layers of the SVB implosion and its broader implications.

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US Officials Make Non-Bailout Bailout of Silicon Valley and Signature Bank and Continue Class Warfare

An over-zealous Fed pushed a few banks, including the big and super connected Silicon Valley Bank, over the edge. A bailout was a given.

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