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Crypto & the SVB Banking Crisis with Marty Bent & Michael Krieger

Unlimited Hangout with Whitney Webb

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The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank

The only way the average person or, you know, a normie has had the ability to essentially leverage in a big way like banks and hedge funds do is buying homes actually. That's always been the one way because when you buy a home and you take a big mortgage, that's what you do. And then, and then everyone else who does not have the ability to access and leverage those low rates. The ratings agencies played a huge role in saying that all these junk mortgage securities were AAA. But would they dare do it to JP Morgan? Probably not.

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