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dlcarrier 15 hours ago

Regardless of what started the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, what to do about it was primarily a concern of banking policy.

Before the Dodd-Frank act, there was a concern that some banks were too big to fail, but the act addressed it by ensuring that all banks are too big to fail. The US no longer has enough diversity in the banking system allow risky institutions to collapse, because they are now all large enough to bring the entire banking system with them.

Because a bailout is effectively a necessity when modern banks are in trouble, it's not hypocritical to support it, even when against the risks the bank is taking.