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Mar 2023
28m 57s

The Banking Crisis Is Opening a New Chap...

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About this episode

A lot has been said about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse. But one important thing revealed by those closely scrutinized failures has largely gone unnoticed: the changing relationship between governments and banks. 

Bloomberg Editor-In-Chief John Micklethwait joins this episode to talk about how the idea that finance is an arm of the state is back–and why that will have far-reaching consequences for the way the world works.

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