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Elizabeth Warren: “So in its postmortem of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, the Fed found that legislation passed out of this Committee in…”

On the recordMay 4, 2023
So in its postmortem of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, the Fed found that legislation passed out of this Committee in 2018, led to weakened rules for big banks that were major contributors to Silicon Valley Bank's failure.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren highlights the Fed's findings linking weakened bank rules to the SVB collapse.

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