
The Banking Crisis Is Opening a New Chapter of Capitalism
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The Rise of National Financial Capitalism
The idea that finance is an arm of the state is back, and global banking is likely to be reshaped by it. I think if Silicon Valley Bank had been based in Oklahoma, I think governments might have taken a very different view. There is no free market world in which it would make sense to allow UBS, the biggest Swiss bank, to take over the second biggest Swiss bank. If your main priority is to keep Swiss finance Swiss, it makes absolute sense.
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