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Banking crisis: who guards the guardians?

The root cause of the latest banking crisis was central bankers, not banks, say Andrew Hunt and Ben Ashby.
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In its recent report into the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, the US Federal Reserve was quick to identify the bank’s management as the main cause of the firm’s woes. But the Fed is wrong. The problems lie with central bankers themselves. 

While SVB might be an outlier in terms of risk management, the recent spate of bank failures in the US is the worst and quickest since the 2008 financial crisis.

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