Segments From This Episode

• Is this a bailout or a rescue? Is this a repeat of 2008?

  Kai Ryssdal chats with Sudeep Reddy, senior managing editor at Politico, about the current mood in the markets as regulators step in to shore up the banking sector and access to credit.

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• Bank rules rollback contributed to SVB’s failure, critics say

  by Kimberly Adams

  

  The rollback of Dodd-Frank reforms exempted many of the country’s largest banks from stricter regulations put in place after 2008.

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• Regulators designated SVB and Signature Bank as systemic risks. But are they really?

  by Lily Jamali

  

  The collapsed banks were granted a “systemic risk exception,” which means the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. can guarantee uninsured deposits.

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• Bank failures add another dose of anxiety to uncertain economy

  by Mitchell Hartman

  

  Viral terms like “bank run” do not help when we’re already looking at high prices, rising interest rates and big layoffs in tech.

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• Banks will pay the cost of SVB’s collapse, and maybe that’s “how it should be”

  by Kai Ryssdal and Sean McHenry

  

  As the government moved to backstop depositors affected by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, surviving banks will end up footing the costs, says Laurie Stewart at Sound Community Bank in Seattle.

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• "Like a huge weight was lifted": A couple of days that felt like a couple of years

  Nadiine El-Ashkar had all her small business had money in Silicon Valley Bank. We first met her on Friday when the bank was shut down and we’ll hear how the past several days have been for her.

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