One more post on Silicon Valley Bank. They lobbied hard for the stress test rules to be modified from $50B to $250B, so as a ~$200B bank they didn't qualify and got looser rules. They had all their VC friends lobby also that job creators needed these looser rules for their bank.
Now their bank has gone down because they were to aggressive reaching for yield and the same people want more government intervention.
If this was a bank mostly serving regular people in Kansas and old economy businesses those VCs would all be putting out tweets about the free market at work.
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