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Panic! At The Bank with Felix Salmon

What Future with Joshua Topolsky

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Is There a Banking Crisis?

Three banks closed within four days, including silver gate. Between them, they had $400 billion of assets. This is an absolutely enormous number of assets in closed banks,. unprecedented since the global financial crisis. People are realizing that lending money to banks is risky. And what's more, it is actually much more attractive to just take that money invested in T-bills, which yield 5%. That is risk free.

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