Economists say the acute problem was thatheld an unusually high percentage of its $209 billion in assets in Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities. As the Federal Reserve raised interest rates rapidly in the past year to fight soaring inflation, the value of the long-term debt held byAs panicked investors withdrew money last week, the bank couldn’t easily sell its assets to cover its deposits.
“The primary reason behind the collapse is the fact that the bank was taking in depositor money and putting it in investments that were not risk-appropriate,” said Joel Griffith, an economic policy researcher at the conservative Heritage Foundation. “Those investments plunged in value when interest rates went up.”was paying its customers as much as 4.5% interest on their bank deposits.A woke agenda didn’t directly doom the bank, Mr.
“A lot of the managers were focused on a number of woke causes, including the risk manager in the United Kingdom who was involved in a number of social justice causes,” he said. “But the bottom line is, they apparently weren’t focused on actually managing the risk of the bank.
“A lot of the venture capital firms in that so-called clean energy space that had put their money on deposit at, those are government-subsidized companies,” he said. “They are taking advantage of renewable energy mandates, of tax credits, of tax subsidies. They were awash in capital because so much money had been put into the stock market during COVID with all the money that was printed. So they were already benefiting at the expense of taxpayers. And then they put money at a woke bank,.
At Signature Bank, Mr. Griffith said, managers parked deposits in long-term debt while vowing that the bank wouldn’t invest in fossil fuel companies, firms that built prisons or companies that manufactured weapons for the U.S. military.Sen. John Kennedy, Louisiana Republican and a member of the Senate Banking Committee, said Wednesday that
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They didn’t ignore the risk. They benefited from it and expected taxpayers to bail them out.
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