DeSantis and other prominent Republicans blame 'woke' politics for Silicon Valley Bank's collapse instead of bankers miscalibrating risk

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Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky (left) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have claimed that politics may have been behind Silicon Valley Bank's downfall.

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Elizabeth Warren says the millions in bonuses Silicon Valley Bank executives took home last year should be recovered by regulators: 'We should claw all that back'

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The report found that banks are not repaying the vast majority of cases where customers were tricked into making fraudulent transactions over Zelle.

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Venture capitalists 'almost took the whole system down' by having startups stow all their cash at Silicon Valley Bank, says one tech billionaire CEO

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Billionaire tech CEO Thomas Siebel said venture capital investors should have prepared startups for the possibility of a collapse like SVB.

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Silicon Valley Bank's meltdown shows that tech's elites need the government after all

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Certain loud voices in the tech industry rail against big government and regulations. But when the government stepped in to help Silicon Valley Bank depositors, they welcomes it with open arms.

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SVB's collapse could make it harder for climate startups to get the funding they need

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Startup founders scrambled to get their funds out of Silicon Valley Bank after its collapse.
Startup founders scrambled to get their funds out of Silicon Valley Bank.

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'Shark Tank' star Kevin O'Leary says he will never buy a bank stock again as Biden has essentially nationalized the industry post-SVB

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Republicans are slamming the bailout of Silicon Valley Bank's customers, saying it's a giveaway to the rich

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Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

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Benchmark's Bill Gurley calls Silicon Valley Bank's collapse 'a black swan event' at SXSW, and casts aside criticism of the move to secure its depositors

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Veteran venture capitalist and general partner at Benchmark, Bill Gurley.

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The winners and losers of the Silicon Valley Bank failure

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Startup founders scrambled to get their funds out of Silicon Valley Bank after its collapse.
Startup founders scrambled to get their funds out of Silicon Valley Bank after its collapse.

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Why the implosion of Silicon Valley Bank is actually a good thing for stocks

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