Wolff Responds: Why Did Silicon Valley Bank Collapse? 

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@thenewmiLONNIEum más fácil entender al señor que leer la obra de Marx. Además nos previene de las consecuencias tangibles en nuestras vidas cotidianas.

​@thenewmiLONNIEum Please explain what Marx said in relation to either what OP said or SVB crashing.

@@Lahng_Blackduke - I don't know, but he certainly knew that the apostrophe comes before the s.

Greedy bankers and politicians “Free market “ Deregulation

The employers raise the prices not the workers. The capitalists for whatever reasons choose to raise the prices of goods and services to make more money. Plain and simple. Raising interest rates does not, never has nor will it do anything but punish the most vulnerable among us.

Yeah like each and every unemployed person have hopes and dreams but the govt doesn't give a shit

You can't look at it with only one eye. If you don't fight inflation, then it hurts the poor much harder. Life isn't perfect, there is no system that guarantees no pain for everyone. But there are government programs and forms of social assistance (welfare) for those who are struggling.

​@@stella3265 increasing interest rates is simply a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich. That's all it ever will be and that's all it's ever has been

Yes, and it's not just to transfer wealth from the citizens to the rich, it's much more to prevent the working class from gaining power and stability.

lmfao, you're a donkey, Matt.

Remember when the government printed trillions and handed it out less than a few years before the banks started to collapse?

They make money on the way up, They make money on the crash. They make ALL the money.

@@stevechance150 👌

We're still in the crash of '08, we've just been papering over it with ever increasing vigor. Arguably we're still in the Dot-Com bust.

Crash means bailouts which means taxpayers money stolen by banks when they never worked for the money

@@Name-ot3xw Arguably we're still in the... whatever made Nixon get dollar off gold.

Sure. I'll register a complaint with Barnum and Baily's too, while I'm at it.

There are no minimum qualifications for Congress people to hold office. Some of these folks did not even graduate high school. Almost all of them have little, if any, economic savvy. I can't imagine what I would be writing to them that would suddenly turn them into something useful to face up to the economic problems at hand.

My Congressman is Ro Khanna and he's not going to do shit. Amusingly my first job was temping on his first political campaign where he was trying to primary someone who had high approval ratings and had held the seat longer than Ro had been alive. He obviously lost. In the process his campaign manager tried to get the temps to work unpaid overtime, violating their contract and his contract with the agency, saying "when we win, we will need good people in Washington," knowing full well they wouldn't win and that the whole thing was pointless exploitation. Suffice to say I have no respect for Ro Khanna, who also happens to be the Congress rep for SVB.

@@aluisious Should check OpenSecrets to see if Khanna accepted any money / ind. expenditures from SVB I know he won't take corp cash but… worth looking up Also Ro Khanna signed the ‘Horrors of Socialism’ ref - beyond forgiveable!! If he runs for senate, support Porter or Barbara Lee

@@ortforshort7652 Don't know who YOUR member of congress is or senators, but you should 😒

Excellent Prof Wolff. What is shameful is SVB Bank top honchos selling their SVB stocks. When they realised SVB was sinking but depositors did not . Doesn't that qualify as a crime?

If people actually want that, they need to start acting on that belief. It would start with unionizing your workplace.

To be more clear, what I mean is that we need to stop hoping that it will just magically happen some day or that random other people will do it but we don't need to do anything. It takes time, work, and strong community. And it starts small.

One problem the reason we are in this mess is because we printed trillllons of dollars. Hate to break it to you but a centralized government controlling currency is not a capitalist idea it’s a Marxist idea. No true free market system would print money and hand it out.

Yes, SVB was a specialty bank funded by IPOs in the innovation economy and bet inflation would be transitory. FDIC will do a technical sale of assets at par value and the balance sheet will be positive.

No mention of the bond market problem caused directly from printing money?

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A man who can see the woods AND the trees.

The Wolff of Main Street never disappoints.

Fed accidentally unemployed the wrong workers. Won’t be surprised if there’s a strategy rethink.

How about a new country just an idea 😊

Socialism

​@@DidierWierdsma6335 I think the USSA would be kinda sweet

I just watched that segment too with David Harvey. They underprice systemic risk. They do it because the banks know they will be bailed out, and we the ordinary people will be left with paying for the consequences.

I love David Harvey. Check out his recent "READING THE GRUNDRISSE WITH DAVID HARVEY" videos where he goes into detail about Marx's work.

@@stella3265 🎯

Would you consider the trillions in stimulus checks and unemployment checks fictitious capital?

@@stuckinthemud4352 obviously the stimulus was actual money going into actual people's hands - our real money from the US treasury 💯 legit No comparison in any sense

Glass Steagall + what destroyed it (under Clinton) Gramm-Leach-Bliley 👏

China executes its corrupt entrepreneurs. Brutal, but it keeps the others on their toes. No wonder the US business class hate China (especially media executives and owners).

That's what FOX news is doing. Trying to distract their domestic audience by blaming anyone but the people responsible.

Toni Idiotig, you pooor opinion is not appreciated

Yes but when big corporations have big losses or go broke, thousands/millions of workers lose their jobs, the system keeps the average Joe hostage one way or the other. It's a system based on economic blackmail, if we (the rich) go broke, your children will go hungry.

@@JoelSantos-lk9tu There is more information now. Sounds like all the "depositors" will be made whole, which I am fine with, those people and businesses put their money into that bank in good faith. The bank (SVB) will be liquidated, shareholders, speculators and bank execs will all lose everything, which is how it should be. Hopefully they will do a stock sale clawback, so they will take the money back from the bank president and the other execs that sold their stocks in the last few weeks before the colapse.

@@tonyjofenig6833 let's hope so, but I suspect there's more to it, let's wait see

After transferring some funds, I spoke with a Fidelity Investment representative a couple of days ago and he informed me that ALL depositors, even those who had accounts in excess of $250,000, would be covered by the government bail out of SVB. Upon hearing that, I immediately wondered how this action will ultimately effect the average American's taxes. However, the bigger question is, "Does anyone still have any faith, whatsoever, in any branch of our corporate owned government and MSM"?

"Limitless funds" ---> Hyperinflation like the Weimar Republic and Zimbabwe.

They're extremely competent. You're just giving them the benefit of the doubt. They aren't messing up, this is the goal. Capitalism is working exactly as it's intended to do, shifting wealth upward. This isn't incompetence it's intentional

@@SephTunes Yeah, I agree with that. That is a system level criticism. And when you really start thinking about it, it goes really deep. For example, if you just look at results over the last 12,000 years of cities and writing and recorded history, what you find is that it doesn't really matter what you call the government/economic system. They all have a shared feature that I'd say is the shared purpose. They all end up with a few people in charge of the policy and the resources, through descending layers of authority. Force in other words. The government/economy pairing starts authoritarian. This means economies in which the actors compete for the gains the economy produces. Lots of different ways to do that, lots of different isms. But these systems are all authoritarian, competition based because the point is to create winners and losers, not to produce and distribute goods and services. Which brings us back to your comment. The fundamental point of our economy is to take a profit. We call it profit instead of gain because the people who set up the economy decided that property ownership was how people fully realized political power in the polity they defined. And to the owners go the spoils. Or in this case the profits. Profits are the point, they are how you gain status and political power in a capitalist society. Not by creating a good product, or having enormous personal charm or talent. By design status and political power are gained by taking the gains others produce, and generally selling the result back to them. This system works just as long as the people taking the profits maintain the system that produces it for them. Essentially this means not creating either domestic or international discontent with how much is being grabbed by the winners in the economies. Greedy people have a real difficulty with sharing and this brings down their designs time after time. They've been doing a really crappy job of maintaining the system they need, because they are greedy, shortsighted and overconfident. But explaining all of this involves a really long and involved bit of writing, so I cheated, and didn't provide it in my original comment. The insight in your comment required a thoughtful response. The final point I'd make is that if we really like the idea of democratic decision making and social equality, the best solution is to do away with competition based economies and implement cooperation based economies. Taboo greed and grant status by how much an individual contribute to the community... not to his/her bank account. Iroquois League is an example of the kind of thing I'm talking about. Graeber and Wengrow "The Dawn of Everything" has a good bit about that set up.

Are you referring to the people that made the decision to print and spend trillions of dollars while simultaneously shutting down every factory in the country? Those people?

The problem is that this bank was too important to fail. So, for those smaller banks that aren't, it will be unwise for depositors to keep their money in them because they don't matter and will not get the same bailout. SVP and its depositors are major democratic funders, therefore they matter. There will be a migration of depositors from small banks to too-big-to-fail banks.

What should we do about the failure of the government? The reason the banks are failing is because the bond market is messed up and the bond market is messed up because we printed trillions of dollars and caused inflation. Never fails to amaze me when I see Marxist ideas lcrash the economy and then I see people thinking Marxist ideas can save it. Printing money got us in this boat printing money is about as anti capitalist as it gets.

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Well, not on it's own accord. But neither did Feudalism.