March 13, 2023

Above, Arcade Fire performs, Put Your Money On Me. I suppose we could be talking about the time change, or perhaps the results from that little trade show in Los Angeles, but today our bloggers are all about the sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.

40 Years in the Desert promised us some comments, and boy-howdy, do they deliver!

The Mahablog declares that There Are No Libertarians in a Bank Failure.

Adventus offers some twitter-sized explanations of what happened, with some sharp commentary.

No More Mister Nice Blog warns us that our Facebook Rage Uncles are going to blame SVB collapse on being woke.

Bonus Track: Open Culture welcomes us to Spring.

Round-up by Tengrain who blogs at Mock, Paper, Scissors. You can follow Tengrain on the Fediverse. Send tips, requests, and suggestions to mbru@crooksandliars.com (with For MBRU in the subject line).

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