When a bank fails in the United States, questions about who is to blame are often directed at many different regulatory agencies, because the system is complex and hard for outsiders to understand. In the wake of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the case for an overhaul could not be stronger.
laments that the post-2008 Dodd-Frank reforms left in place a framework riddled with structural shortcomings.
The failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank are significant market events. But, given an overheated labor market and 1970s-like inflation, if the Fed cannot see the whites of the eyes of a systemic banking crisis, then it must move aggressively on the inflation front.
urges the US central bank to continue raising interest rates, despite signs of financial-sector fragility.
卢布尔雅那——
通观历史,政治领袖们一般都会支持现有的通讯技术,以维护其统治。如今的政府也一样:他们往往以“保护我们都熟知的民主”的名义,倾向于保护报业和公共电视台。不过,阻碍科技的发展在过去不得人心,现在同样不是聪明之举。相反的,政治人物(和媒体)必须与时俱进。
对于传统的报业来说,他们正面临着和银行业,制造业和太阳能业者同样的困境,自己原有的客户正在被新型科技吸引而流失的危险。于是,他们只得转而向政府寻求帮助。但名义却是很高尚:媒体是民主的基石。如果只有博客和微博,没有记者报道新闻,普通公众怎么知道该支持谁呢?
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