Bank Run Watch 2023 after Silicon Valley Bank shutdown - Over 97% of SVB's assets were not FDIC insured

Any business/money people can tell me how concern I should be about my own investments (401k) if as far as I know it had no connections to this bank?
This shouldn't have a major impact on many publicly traded tech stocks. High interest rates with the forecast of them going even higher is what's dragging that sector down currently, this is mainly going to fuck over startups.
 
Oh noes!!!!!
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That's where the worst of the ZIRP malinvestment was concentrated. Raising interest rates to sustainable levels will do more to stimulate the economy in the long run than any of the QE bullshit or other policies over the past 15 years.
QE was because we couldn't get optimal inflation because Chinese currency manipulation meant they kept importing the inflation. While it screwed with growth a bit it meant shitloads of foreign debt was turned into domestic debt at a huge discount and China essentially picking up the tab as a consequence of very lame attempts at being an economic bully.

svb is different, it was hubris leading to failure. Basicly everything silicon valley.
 
QE was because we couldn't get optimal inflation because Chinese currency manipulation meant they kept importing the inflation. While it screwed with growth a bit it meant shitloads of foreign debt was turned into domestic debt at a huge discount and China essentially picking up the tab as a consequence of very lame attempts at being an economic bully.

svb is different, it was hubris leading to failure. Basicly everything silicon valley.
Oh, I was speaking about the tech industry itself. All of these startups that were fed free money are going under because they make no economic sense in an environment with sustainable interest rates.
 
Oh, I was speaking about the tech industry itself. All of these startups that were fed free money are going under because they make no economic sense in an environment with sustainable interest rates.
Because of this...
It is unclear exactly how larger accounts or credit lines for companies will be impacted by the closure.
It isn't going to be clear for a bit exactly the impact. VC funds and startups who have their account at the bank (and didn't participate in the run ahead of time) may be in bad shape, depending on the particulars when the feds unfold everything.

It could be a factor in a wider SV slowdown, but it's unlikely to singlehandedly start a bay area implosion. Most VCs will be unaffected but I still think this will make it a bad time to start a funding round. Edit: It already was because the market's fucky, no guaranteed money on an IPO.
 
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Next week is gonna be fun.
Just to show some downstream effects already manifesting. This is from camp.com, not really sure what they sell since their site is getting slammed by traffic at the moment.

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I view this as nothing more than a fire sale before becoming insolvent, this company will not be able to make payroll either this week or next week, likely this company is now doomed since they will have zero way to acquire new merchandise.
 
This is dominoes. You're going to see a lot of tech companies fail as they all depend on one another for the most part.
So much of it is artificial growth based on acquisition and low interest rates. Borrow, expand, capture other small companies and it looks like you’re growing and more money flows in. I see that even in my industry. I’m curious what kind of exposure biotech has to this. There’s a lot of US venture capital funding.
 
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