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What is a Bailout?

Barry Ritholtz

Silicon Valley Bank depositors made whole; Credit Suisse counter-parties saved; First Republic bondholders protected — are these bailouts or something else? This is the government financially rescuing people despite—or perhaps because of— their own enormous recklessness and incompetence.” Were these people “bailed out?”

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StanChart Hit With $40M Fine For Transaction Rigging

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The investigation found that Standard Chartered’s traders used illegal tactics to maximize profits or minimize losses at the expense of the bank’s customers, or customers at other financial institutions (FIs). In fact, one trader described the chat room to a new member as “a den of thieves.”.

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Transcript: Zeke Faux, Number Go Up

Barry Ritholtz

Tether, this is a company that was like the Central Bank of crypto and when I started looking into it, it’s, it’s a stable coin. They’re keeping a dollar in the bank for you. It gotten huge and that meant they were supposed to have $50 billion in the bank somewhere. 00:15:25 [Speaker Changed] Yeah.

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