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Maxine Waters: “It is, of course, unfortunate that there was a run on the bank at Signature prompted by what we saw with SVB, but it is…”

On the recordApril 18, 2023
It is, of course, unfortunate that there was a run on the bank at Signature prompted by what we saw with SVB, but it is not the case that the failure of Signature was related to crypto.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

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Waters discusses the bank failure and its misconceptions regarding cryptocurrency.

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