The 10 largest deposit accounts at Silicon Valley Bank held a combined $13.3 billion, a detail that’s likely to intensify criticism of federal regulators’ intervention in the firm’s recent collapse.
the federal government’s swift action in the wake of SVB’s failure “a good illustration of the enormous class bias in American policymaking.”
“As soon as corporations and the wealthy run into trouble, elites trip over themselves, discarding both law and precedent, to rescue them,” Gyauch-Lewis wrote, noting that federal regulators had to classify SVB’s collapse as a “systemic risk” to the financial system — a disputed characterization — in order to legally guarantee deposits over $250,000.
For contrast, Gyauch-Lewis added, “consider student loan forgiveness. The legal justification is clear as day, and the authority itself is used regularly. According to the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003, the Education Department can forgive student loans as it sees fit in a national emergency.”
“At bottom, the core reason SVB’s depositors got bailed out had little to do with morals or even financial risk,” Gyauch-Lewis argued. “It happened because they had rich and powerful friends with the ear of the president’s chief of staff. Broke students don’t. The students have to organize and campaign for decades to get something far worse than what they wanted, and for that to hang in the balance at the Supreme Court. The SVB depositors just had to whine on Twitter and make a few calls.
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