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Silicon Valley Bank’s Failure Shows Why We Need to Expand Public Banking
Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse was no aberration: hundreds of private banks in the US have failed since the Great Recession. For a more stable financial system that actually meets ordinary people’s needs, we need to expand public banking.