Skip to content Money Crashers Manage Money Banking Too-Big-to-Fail Bank (TBTF) — What It Is & List of US Banks By Brian Martucci Date April 12, 2023 Table of contents For those old enough to remember, the sudden failure of Silicon Valley Bank in March 2023 dredged up uneasy memories of the late-2000s financial crisis. Back then, the world’s biggest banks teetered on the brink of implosion, and ordinary people worried — rightfully so — whether their money was safe, even in “too-big-to-fail” banks. Silicon Valley Bank’s failure didn’t spark a full-blown financial crisis. But it did rekindle debate about where to draw the line. It could lead to a more fundamental rethinking of what “too big to fail” should mean. What Is a Too-Big-to-Fail Bank? A too-big-to-fail bank is a financial institution that would cause significant economic damage if it went out of business. Also known as “systemically important” banks, they each have hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars in assets. They play important roles in virtually every sector of the economy. If you imagine the American economy as a big-city water system, too-big-to-fail banks are the massive water mains branching off from the main water treatment plant. When one bursts, whole neighborhoods flood. Because they’re so important, these banks are subject to strict supervision by American bank regulators. The Federal Reserve’s Large Institution Supervision Coordinating Committee has overseen systemically important U.S.-based banks since 2010. Which Banks Are Too Big to Fail Today? Which banks make the too-big-to-fail list depends on your definition of too big to fail, thus the debate. Within the U.S., there are the officially too-big-to-fail banks (they’re on the Large Institution Supervision Coordinating Committee’s list) and there are unofficially too-big-to-fail banks (they’re not on the list, but it could still be a problem). And that’s before you even get to the international banks. List of Banks That Are Officially Too Big to Fail As of 2023, eight American banks qualify as too big to fail in the narrowest sense — that is, they’re under the jurisdiction of the Large Institution Supervision Coordinating Committee. Those banks are: JPMorgan Chase Citigroup Bank of America Wells Fargo BNY Mellon Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley State Street JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo are by far the biggest banks in the United States by assets. They each serve millions of consumers and businesses and manage a significant portion of the total U.S. money supply. Though smaller, the other four have massive investment banking operations. They’re crucial to the smooth functioning of the U.S. economy while also having the unique ability to threaten its foundations. Other Banks Considered Too Big to Fail The systemically important banks aren’t the only ones U.S. regulators consider too big to fail. After the late-2000s financial crisis, the Dodd-Frank Act established a new regulatory framework for banks with more than $50 billion in assets. The Federal Reserve supervises these enhanced supervision banks much more closely than smaller banks. As the economy grew, so did the number of banks above the $50-billion level. By 2018, several dozen made the cut. That’s also the year Congress raised the enhanced supervision threshold to $250 billion in assets. Notably, Silicon Valley Bank had more than $50 billion but less than $250 billion in assets when it went under. Too-Big-to-Fail Banks Outside the United States Outside the United States, the definition of “too big to fail” is not as clear-cut. It’s safe to assume that the 20 biggest banks in the world are all too big to fail. But as in the U.S., many smaller institutions qualify as too big to fail due to their systemic importance. For example, the Chinese government has treated troubled real estate lender Evergrande as too big to fail due to the vital role it plays in that country’s property market. Which Banks Don’t Qualify as Too Big to Fail? In the United States, any bank with less than $250 billion in assets is technically not too big to fail. But in practice, federal bank regulators sometimes suspend the rules for larger banks they deem vital to the economy. We don’t have to go very far back to find good examples. Of the three U.S.-based banks that failed in March 2023, two had more than $100 billion in assets: Silicon Valley Bank (about $200 billion) and Signature Bank (about $110 billion). Bank regulators allowed both to fail, wiping out their shareholders. Following the usual process for when banks face severe financial distress, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation temporarily took over Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank so customers could continue to use their accounts and access their funds. It then began the process of winding down the banks and seeking buyers for their assets. However, regulators took the extraordinary step of insuring all deposits in both banks, including those above the customary $250,000 limit on FDIC insurance. Their thinking was that if they let billions of dollars in uninsured deposits evaporate in an uncontrolled bank failure, consumers and businesses would panic and set off a widespread bank run that could devastate the economy. By implication, they admitted that Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank were essentially too big to fail. A Brief History of Too-Big-to-Fail banks The too-big-to-fail concept long predates the late-2000s financial crisis, when it burst into the public consciousness with the failure of Lehman Brothers and federal bailouts of other big banks. Amid fundamental changes in how Americans bank and the fallout from the March 2023 bank failures, it could be due for another rethinking. Origins of Too-Big-to-Fail For a comprehensive history of the origins and early history of too-big-to-fail, read Robert L. Hetzel’s 1991 paper “Too Big to Fail: Origins, Consequences, and Outlook.” From his vantage point of the later stages of the 1980s savings and loan crisis, which saw hundreds of mostly small and midsize community banks fail, Hetzel tracks 40 years of regulatory thinking and action around failing or failed banks. As early as 1950, he writes, the FDIC had the legal authority to prevent banks from failing when it deemed them “essential to provide adequate banking service in its community.” That gave the FDIC a lot of leeway to prop up banks of any size with short-term loans and other forms of financial support. The FDIC’s capabilities further expanded in 1982, when the Garn-St. Germain Act gave it the authority to find other banks to purchase or take over failed banks’ assets and liabilities. Previously, when it allowed a bank to fail, the FDIC would simply supervise its liquidation — the rapid sale of its assets, often at steep discounts. That was a positive change for bank customers. It lessened the period of uncertainty following a bank’s failure and reduced interruptions in loan servicing, funds access, and other essential banking services. The FDIC exercised its power to prevent bank failures several times after 1950, but not always because it deemed distressed banks too big to fail. For example, in the early 1970s, it propped up Boston-based Unity Bank and Detroit-based Bank of the Commonwealth over concerns that their failures would hinder financial access and capacity for those cities’ Black communities during a period of heightened racial tensions. In 1984, the FDIC intervened to prevent the failure of Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust, which was at one time the seventh-largest commercial bank in the United States. With $40 billion in assets and a vast business loan portfolio, Continental Illinois was a clear-cut example of a too-big-to-fail bank. Like Silicon Valley Bank, it also had an unusually high share of uninsured deposits — about 90% — which meant tens of billions of dollars could evaporate in an uncontrolled failure. That would have damaged an economy that was just emerging from a severe recession and spiraling inflation. Glass-Steagall Repeal Raises the Stakes for for Big Banks For most of the 20th century, the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 enforced separation of retail banking operations (taking deposits and making loans) from investment banking operations (investing in companies directly, trading stocks, and other market activities). Basically, banks had to choose one or the other — the same institution couldn’t be both a retail bank and an investment bank. That changed in 1999, when Congress repealed the most important provisions of the Glass-Steagall Act. A cascade of mergers between big retail banks and big investment banks followed. These mergers were mutually beneficial because they enabled retail banks to participate in much more profitable investment banking activities while giving investment banks access to billions of dollars in customer deposits. But the newly combined institutions are much bigger than before. And because investment banking is riskier than retail banking, they pose a much greater risk to the financial system and broader economy. It didn’t take long for bank regulators to learn just how great that risk was. By 2008, the financial system faced a full-blown crisis brought about (in part) by Glass-Steagall repeal. Bear Stearns: Too Big to Fail, Sort Of Bear Stearns was the first big investment bank to run into trouble during the late-2000s financial crisis. Its troubles came to a head in March 2008, when credit rating agency Moody’s downgraded the junky mortgage-backed securities on Bear Stearns’ balance sheet. Investors fled, pulling billions in cash and sending Bear Stearns’ stock price through the floor. The Federal Reserve signaled its willingness to keep Bear Stearns from failing by extending an emergency loan through JPMorgan Chase, which handled the investment bank’s cash. But because Bear Stearns’ mortgage-backed securities were basically worthless, JPMorgan Chase balked. Instead, it offered to purchase Bear Stearns at a 93% discount. Bear Stearns (which had little choice in the matter) and the Federal Reserve both saw that as an acceptable Plan B. To reduce JPMorgan Chase’s risk, the Federal Reserve committed to providing up to $30 billion to fund the transaction — an admission that Bear Stearns was too big to allow it to fail. We can’t know for sure, but given JPMorgan Chase’s initial hesitation, it’s likely that the Fed’s commitment proved decisive. Without it, JPMorgan Chase might have walked away and allowed Bear Stearns to collapse entirely. That would have deepened the market’s already grave concerns about banks saddled with bad mortgage debt and probably pulled forward the acute phase of the financial crisis. Instead of the “Lehman moment” that kicked off widespread market panic, we’d be talking about a “Bear Stearns moment.” Lehman Brothers: Not Too Big to Fail Lehman Brothers’ troubles were similar to Bear Stearns’. In September 2008, Lehman announced it would write off billions in toxic mortgage debt and spin off tens of billions more into a separate company. But that accounted for only a small portion of its total exposure to mortgage debt. Investors rightly feared further write-offs and worried about the bank’s ability to stay in business. Lehman’s stock tanked, and bank leaders scrambled to find a buyer. Bank of America thought about it but ultimately decided to buy Merrill Lynch, a somewhat less troubled investment bank. Barclays nibbled at Lehman’s U.K. operations but was stymied by British regulators. Finally, Lehman turned to the Federal Reserve, expecting it would come to their rescue as it had Bear Stearns a few months earlier. But it wasn’t to be. Having paid a heavy political price for the Bear Stearns intervention, which was widely seen as a bailout for fat-cat Wall Streeters, the beleaguered George W. Bush administration refused to bless another investment bank rescue. Lehman declared bankruptcy on Sept. 15, 2008, sending global markets into a tailspin. Fearing financial contagion — a cascade of major bank failures — U.S. policymakers sprang into action. After a false start that set off a fresh round of market turmoil, Congress authorized the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program to stabilize the banking sector. After the Financial Crisis: Dodd-Frank Act Passage & Partial Repeal Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in 2010. Among many other aims, Dodd-Frank sought to reduce the likelihood of future financial crises by strengthening the Federal Reserve’s bank oversight capabilities. Nodding to the political cost of the 2008 bank bailouts, the law promised “to protect the American taxpayer by ending bailouts” and end too big to fail. We know now that Dodd-Frank did neither. It didn’t break up big banks into components small enough to safely fail on their own. Nor did it end the sorts of extraordinary measures most people think of as bailouts, like the blanket protection of uninsured bank deposits — though, thankfully, we haven’t yet had a repeat of the 2008 calamity. Dodd-Frank did legitimately strengthen bank oversight, however. It set up a strict new oversight framework for banks with $50 billion or more in assets. Even in 2010, dozens of U.S.-based banks cleared that threshold. The result was that tens of millions of Americans banked with institutions that — in theory — were close to failure-proof. For eight years, at least. In 2018, Congress removed this oversight framework for banks with under $250 billion in assets, setting the stage for Signature Bank and Silicon Valley Bank to fail. Rethinking Too Big to Fail in the Age of Social Media & Instant Transfers Information spreads much faster today than it did in 2008. So does panic. Unlike Bear Stearns and Lehman, Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank weren’t sitting on tens or hundreds of billions in worthless mortgage debt. They had serious financial and structural problems, for sure, but they probably would have survived were it not for a social media-fueled rumor mill that spurred their biggest customers to pull their cash. Silicon Valley Bank customers withdrew $42 billion in the 24-hour period before the bank closed for good. The banks’ customers were able to withdraw so much money so quickly thanks to the magic of near-instantaneous electronic funds transfers. After all, nervous customers don’t have to queue outside bank branches to withdraw cash anymore. They can transfer their entire balance to another bank without leaving home. Despite a lingering aversion to anything that could be perceived as a bank bailout, this new reality likely influenced U.S. regulators’ decision to step in and guarantee uninsured deposits at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. As those banks teetered, people and businesses were pulling billions from other large regional banks. Regulators worried — probably correctly, though we’ll never know for sure — that inaction would cause much more serious runs at those banks, leading to more bank failures. That would have damaged an already weakened economy. Final Word What happens next is anyone’s guess, but it’s clear the people in charge of U.S. bank oversight are rethinking bank supervision and consumer protection. A few days after the March 2023 failures, U.S. President Joe Biden stood at a lectern and assured Americans that their cash was safe in the bank. Though he didn’t say so outright, he strongly implied that regulators might allow individual banks to fail in the future, but they’d guarantee uninsured deposits regardless of the institution’s size. If that holds, it’s a huge relief for American bank customers, no matter what the future brings. Related: 20 Largest Banks in the U.S. Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) Collapse — Second Largest All-Time Failure Partial Dodd-Frank Act Repeal in 2018 — Did It Contribute to the 2024 Banking Crisis? 20 Largest Banks in the World by Total Assets What to Do If Your Bank Fails – 4-Step Checklist Banking Manage Money Save Money Brian Martucci Brian Martucci writes about credit cards, banking, insurance, travel, and more. 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Skip to content Money Crashers Manage Money Banking Too-Big-to-Fail Bank (TBTF) — What It Is & List of US Banks By Brian Martucci Date April 12, 2023 Table of contents For those old enough to remember, the sudden failure of Silicon Valley Bank in March 2023 dredged up uneasy memories of the late-2000s financial crisis. Back then, the world’s biggest banks teetered on the brink of implosion, and ordinary people worried — rightfully so — whether their money was safe, even in “too-big-to-fail” banks. Silicon Valley Bank’s failure didn’t spark a full-blown financial crisis. But it did rekindle debate about where to draw the line. It could lead to a more fundamental rethinking of what “too big to fail” should mean. What Is a Too-Big-to-Fail Bank? A too-big-to-fail bank is a financial institution that would cause significant economic damage if it went out of business. Also known as “systemically important” banks, they each have hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars in assets. They play important roles in virtually every sector of the economy. If you imagine the American economy as a big-city water system, too-big-to-fail banks are the massive water mains branching off from the main water treatment plant. When one bursts, whole neighborhoods flood. Because they’re so important, these banks are subject to strict supervision by American bank regulators. The Federal Reserve’s Large Institution Supervision Coordinating Committee has overseen systemically important U.S.-based banks since 2010. Which Banks Are Too Big to Fail Today? Which banks make the too-big-to-fail list depends on your definition of too big to fail, thus the debate. Within the U.S., there are the officially too-big-to-fail banks (they’re on the Large Institution Supervision Coordinating Committee’s list) and there are unofficially too-big-to-fail banks (they’re not on the list, but it could still be a problem). And that’s before you even get to the international banks. List of Banks That Are Officially Too Big to Fail As of 2023, eight American banks qualify as too big to fail in the narrowest sense — that is, they’re under the jurisdiction of the Large Institution Supervision Coordinating Committee. Those banks are: JPMorgan Chase Citigroup Bank of America Wells Fargo BNY Mellon Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley State Street JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo are by far the biggest banks in the United States by assets. They each serve millions of consumers and businesses and manage a significant portion of the total U.S. money supply. Though smaller, the other four have massive investment banking operations. They’re crucial to the smooth functioning of the U.S. economy while also having the unique ability to threaten its foundations. Other Banks Considered Too Big to Fail The systemically important banks aren’t the only ones U.S. regulators consider too big to fail. After the late-2000s financial crisis, the Dodd-Frank Act established a new regulatory framework for banks with more than $50 billion in assets. The Federal Reserve supervises these enhanced supervision banks much more closely than smaller banks. As the economy grew, so did the number of banks above the $50-billion level. By 2018, several dozen made the cut. That’s also the year Congress raised the enhanced supervision threshold to $250 billion in assets. Notably, Silicon Valley Bank had more than $50 billion but less than $250 billion in assets when it went under. Too-Big-to-Fail Banks Outside the United States Outside the United States, the definition of “too big to fail” is not as clear-cut. It’s safe to assume that the 20 biggest banks in the world are all too big to fail. But as in the U.S., many smaller institutions qualify as too big to fail due to their systemic importance. For example, the Chinese government has treated troubled real estate lender Evergrande as too big to fail due to the vital role it plays in that country’s property market. Which Banks Don’t Qualify as Too Big to Fail? In the United States, any bank with less than $250 billion in assets is technically not too big to fail. But in practice, federal bank regulators sometimes suspend the rules for larger banks they deem vital to the economy. We don’t have to go very far back to find good examples. Of the three U.S.-based banks that failed in March 2023, two had more than $100 billion in assets: Silicon Valley Bank (about $200 billion) and Signature Bank (about $110 billion). Bank regulators allowed both to fail, wiping out their shareholders. Following the usual process for when banks face severe financial distress, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation temporarily took over Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank so customers could continue to use their accounts and access their funds. It then began the process of winding down the banks and seeking buyers for their assets. However, regulators took the extraordinary step of insuring all deposits in both banks, including those above the customary $250,000 limit on FDIC insurance. Their thinking was that if they let billions of dollars in uninsured deposits evaporate in an uncontrolled bank failure, consumers and businesses would panic and set off a widespread bank run that could devastate the economy. By implication, they admitted that Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank were essentially too big to fail. A Brief History of Too-Big-to-Fail banks The too-big-to-fail concept long predates the late-2000s financial crisis, when it burst into the public consciousness with the failure of Lehman Brothers and federal bailouts of other big banks. Amid fundamental changes in how Americans bank and the fallout from the March 2023 bank failures, it could be due for another rethinking. Origins of Too-Big-to-Fail For a comprehensive history of the origins and early history of too-big-to-fail, read Robert L. Hetzel’s 1991 paper “Too Big to Fail: Origins, Consequences, and Outlook.” From his vantage point of the later stages of the 1980s savings and loan crisis, which saw hundreds of mostly small and midsize community banks fail, Hetzel tracks 40 years of regulatory thinking and action around failing or failed banks. As early as 1950, he writes, the FDIC had the legal authority to prevent banks from failing when it deemed them “essential to provide adequate banking service in its community.” That gave the FDIC a lot of leeway to prop up banks of any size with short-term loans and other forms of financial support. The FDIC’s capabilities further expanded in 1982, when the Garn-St. Germain Act gave it the authority to find other banks to purchase or take over failed banks’ assets and liabilities. Previously, when it allowed a bank to fail, the FDIC would simply supervise its liquidation — the rapid sale of its assets, often at steep discounts. That was a positive change for bank customers. It lessened the period of uncertainty following a bank’s failure and reduced interruptions in loan servicing, funds access, and other essential banking services. The FDIC exercised its power to prevent bank failures several times after 1950, but not always because it deemed distressed banks too big to fail. For example, in the early 1970s, it propped up Boston-based Unity Bank and Detroit-based Bank of the Commonwealth over concerns that their failures would hinder financial access and capacity for those cities’ Black communities during a period of heightened racial tensions. In 1984, the FDIC intervened to prevent the failure of Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust, which was at one time the seventh-largest commercial bank in the United States. With $40 billion in assets and a vast business loan portfolio, Continental Illinois was a clear-cut example of a too-big-to-fail bank. Like Silicon Valley Bank, it also had an unusually high share of uninsured deposits — about 90% — which meant tens of billions of dollars could evaporate in an uncontrolled failure. That would have damaged an economy that was just emerging from a severe recession and spiraling inflation. Glass-Steagall Repeal Raises the Stakes for for Big Banks For most of the 20th century, the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 enforced separation of retail banking operations (taking deposits and making loans) from investment banking operations (investing in companies directly, trading stocks, and other market activities). Basically, banks had to choose one or the other — the same institution couldn’t be both a retail bank and an investment bank. That changed in 1999, when Congress repealed the most important provisions of the Glass-Steagall Act. A cascade of mergers between big retail banks and big investment banks followed. These mergers were mutually beneficial because they enabled retail banks to participate in much more profitable investment banking activities while giving investment banks access to billions of dollars in customer deposits. But the newly combined institutions are much bigger than before. And because investment banking is riskier than retail banking, they pose a much greater risk to the financial system and broader economy. It didn’t take long for bank regulators to learn just how great that risk was. By 2008, the financial system faced a full-blown crisis brought about (in part) by Glass-Steagall repeal. Bear Stearns: Too Big to Fail, Sort Of Bear Stearns was the first big investment bank to run into trouble during the late-2000s financial crisis. Its troubles came to a head in March 2008, when credit rating agency Moody’s downgraded the junky mortgage-backed securities on Bear Stearns’ balance sheet. Investors fled, pulling billions in cash and sending Bear Stearns’ stock price through the floor. The Federal Reserve signaled its willingness to keep Bear Stearns from failing by extending an emergency loan through JPMorgan Chase, which handled the investment bank’s cash. But because Bear Stearns’ mortgage-backed securities were basically worthless, JPMorgan Chase balked. Instead, it offered to purchase Bear Stearns at a 93% discount. Bear Stearns (which had little choice in the matter) and the Federal Reserve both saw that as an acceptable Plan B. To reduce JPMorgan Chase’s risk, the Federal Reserve committed to providing up to $30 billion to fund the transaction — an admission that Bear Stearns was too big to allow it to fail. We can’t know for sure, but given JPMorgan Chase’s initial hesitation, it’s likely that the Fed’s commitment proved decisive. Without it, JPMorgan Chase might have walked away and allowed Bear Stearns to collapse entirely. That would have deepened the market’s already grave concerns about banks saddled with bad mortgage debt and probably pulled forward the acute phase of the financial crisis. Instead of the “Lehman moment” that kicked off widespread market panic, we’d be talking about a “Bear Stearns moment.” Lehman Brothers: Not Too Big to Fail Lehman Brothers’ troubles were similar to Bear Stearns’. In September 2008, Lehman announced it would write off billions in toxic mortgage debt and spin off tens of billions more into a separate company. But that accounted for only a small portion of its total exposure to mortgage debt. Investors rightly feared further write-offs and worried about the bank’s ability to stay in business. Lehman’s stock tanked, and bank leaders scrambled to find a buyer. Bank of America thought about it but ultimately decided to buy Merrill Lynch, a somewhat less troubled investment bank. Barclays nibbled at Lehman’s U.K. operations but was stymied by British regulators. Finally, Lehman turned to the Federal Reserve, expecting it would come to their rescue as it had Bear Stearns a few months earlier. But it wasn’t to be. Having paid a heavy political price for the Bear Stearns intervention, which was widely seen as a bailout for fat-cat Wall Streeters, the beleaguered George W. Bush administration refused to bless another investment bank rescue. Lehman declared bankruptcy on Sept. 15, 2008, sending global markets into a tailspin. Fearing financial contagion — a cascade of major bank failures — U.S. policymakers sprang into action. After a false start that set off a fresh round of market turmoil, Congress authorized the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program to stabilize the banking sector. After the Financial Crisis: Dodd-Frank Act Passage & Partial Repeal Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in 2010. Among many other aims, Dodd-Frank sought to reduce the likelihood of future financial crises by strengthening the Federal Reserve’s bank oversight capabilities. Nodding to the political cost of the 2008 bank bailouts, the law promised “to protect the American taxpayer by ending bailouts” and end too big to fail. We know now that Dodd-Frank did neither. It didn’t break up big banks into components small enough to safely fail on their own. Nor did it end the sorts of extraordinary measures most people think of as bailouts, like the blanket protection of uninsured bank deposits — though, thankfully, we haven’t yet had a repeat of the 2008 calamity. Dodd-Frank did legitimately strengthen bank oversight, however. It set up a strict new oversight framework for banks with $50 billion or more in assets. Even in 2010, dozens of U.S.-based banks cleared that threshold. The result was that tens of millions of Americans banked with institutions that — in theory — were close to failure-proof. For eight years, at least. In 2018, Congress removed this oversight framework for banks with under $250 billion in assets, setting the stage for Signature Bank and Silicon Valley Bank to fail. Rethinking Too Big to Fail in the Age of Social Media & Instant Transfers Information spreads much faster today than it did in 2008. So does panic. Unlike Bear Stearns and Lehman, Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank weren’t sitting on tens or hundreds of billions in worthless mortgage debt. They had serious financial and structural problems, for sure, but they probably would have survived were it not for a social media-fueled rumor mill that spurred their biggest customers to pull their cash. Silicon Valley Bank customers withdrew $42 billion in the 24-hour period before the bank closed for good. The banks’ customers were able to withdraw so much money so quickly thanks to the magic of near-instantaneous electronic funds transfers. After all, nervous customers don’t have to queue outside bank branches to withdraw cash anymore. They can transfer their entire balance to another bank without leaving home. Despite a lingering aversion to anything that could be perceived as a bank bailout, this new reality likely influenced U.S. regulators’ decision to step in and guarantee uninsured deposits at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. As those banks teetered, people and businesses were pulling billions from other large regional banks. Regulators worried — probably correctly, though we’ll never know for sure — that inaction would cause much more serious runs at those banks, leading to more bank failures. That would have damaged an already weakened economy. Final Word What happens next is anyone’s guess, but it’s clear the people in charge of U.S. bank oversight are rethinking bank supervision and consumer protection. A few days after the March 2023 failures, U.S. President Joe Biden stood at a lectern and assured Americans that their cash was safe in the bank. Though he didn’t say so outright, he strongly implied that regulators might allow individual banks to fail in the future, but they’d guarantee uninsured deposits regardless of the institution’s size. If that holds, it’s a huge relief for American bank customers, no matter what the future brings. Related: 20 Largest Banks in the U.S. Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) Collapse — Second Largest All-Time Failure Partial Dodd-Frank Act Repeal in 2018 — Did It Contribute to the 2024 Banking Crisis? 20 Largest Banks in the World by Total Assets What to Do If Your Bank Fails – 4-Step Checklist Banking Manage Money Save Money Brian Martucci Brian Martucci writes about credit cards, banking, insurance, travel, and more. 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All Images Short videos Forums Videos News Web Books Flights Finance Search tools Feedback Psychedelic therapy is the use of plants and compounds that can induce hallucinations to treat mental health diagnoses, such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). https://www.medicalnewstoday.com Psychedelic therapy: For depression, PTSD, addiction, and more Feedback About featured snippets Ad TheLifeCo https://www.thelifeco.com › wellness › retreat Natural Healing Therapies Join Our Family — Experience a unique wellness holiday customized just for you in TheLifeCo Bodrum & Antalya. A healthy holiday with plant-based wellness programs awaits you in TheLifeCo. View Programs Mindful Programs Master Cleanse Program Detox Programs Wellness Programs People also ask What is psychedelic treatment? Are psychedelics used medically? Is there any medical use for hallucinogens? What psychedelics are used to treat addiction? Feedback Johns Hopkins Medicine https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org Psychedelics Research and Psilocybin Therapy The Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research is leading the way in exploring innovative treatments using psilocybin. American Psychological Association (APA) https://www.apa.org The emergence of psychedelics as medicine Jun 1, 2024 — A proliferation of new research indicates the potential of MDMA, ketamine, and psilocybin to help people with treatment-resistant mental ... McLean Hospital https://www.mcleanhospital.org Psychedelic Therapy: Transforming Mental Health Care Aug 5, 2024 — Explore the curious world of psychedelic therapy and how mushrooms, LSD, ketamine, and MDMA are being studied to revolutionize mental health ... Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org Psychedelic therapy Psychedelic therapy (or psychedelic-assisted therapy) refers to the proposed use of psychedelic drugs, such as psilocybin, ayahuasca, LSD, psilocin, ... Mind Medicine Australia https://mindmedicineaustralia.org.au Mind Medicine Australia Mind Medicine Australia is a charity that seeks to alleviate the suffering caused by mental illness in Australia through expanding the treatment options ... National Institutes of Health (NIH) (.gov) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Psychedelic medicine: a re-emerging therapeutic paradigm - PMC by KW Tupper · 2015 · Cited by 307 — Renewed investigations are taking place on the use of psychedelic substances for treating illnesses such as addiction, depression, anxiety and posttraumatic ... PTSD: National Center for PTSD (.gov) https://www.ptsd.va.gov Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy for PTSD This article focuses on the use of psilocybin- and MDMA-assisted therapy (P-AT and MDMA-AT) for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in ... Nature www.nature.com Psychedelic therapy: a roadmap for wider acceptance and utilization by M Marks · 2021 · Cited by 67 — Psychedelics have shown great promise in treating mental-health conditions, but their use is severely limited by legal obstacles, which could be overcome. The Lancet https://www.thelancet.com Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy: hope and dilemma Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy is an emerging therapeutic approach that combines the use of psychedelics (a subclass of hallucinogenic drugs) and ... Ad The Economist Psychedelic therapy shows great promise. More states should legalise More than a million subscribers trust The Economist’s accurate independent global New World Order: Türkiye

Wikipedia Search Nazar (amulet) Article Talk Language Download PDF Watch Edit A naẓar (from Arabic ‏نَظَر‎ [ˈnaðˤar], meaning 'sight', 'surveillance', 'attention', and other related concepts), or an eye bead is an eye-shaped amulet believed by many to protect against the evil eye. The term is also used in Azerbaijani, Bengali, Hebrew, Hindi–Urdu, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian, Punjabi, Turkish, Greek and other languages.[1] In Turkey, it is known by the name nazar boncuğu[2] (the latter word being a derivative of boncuk, "bead" in Turkic, and the former borrowed from Arabic), in Greece it is known as máti (μάτι, 'eye'). In Persian and Afghan folklore, it is called a cheshm nazar (Persian: چشم نظر) or nazar qurbāni (نظرقربانی).[3] In India and Pakistan, the Hindi-Urdu slogan chashm-e-baddoor (چشم بدور, '[may the evil] eye keep away') is used to ward off the evil eye.[4] In the Indian subcontinent, the phrase nazar lag gai is used to indicate that one has been affected by the evil eye.[5][6][7] A Turkish nazar boncuğu Eye beads or nazars – amulets against the evil eye – for sale in a shop. The nazar was added to Unicode as U+1F9FF 🧿 NAZAR AMULET in 2018.[8] Amulet edit A typical nazar is made of handmade glass featuring concentric circles or teardrop shapes in dark blue, white, light blue and black, occasionally with a yellow/gold edge.[9] "The bead is made of a mixture of molten glass, iron, copper, water, and salt, ingredients that are thought to shield people from evil."[2] "According to Turkish belief, blue acts as a shield against evil and even absorbs negativity."[2] In the Middle East and the Mediterranean,[10][11][12][13] "blue eyes are relatively rare, so the ancients believed that people with light eyes, particularly blue eyes, could curse you [one] with just one look. This belief is so ancient, even the Assyrians had turquoise and blue-eye amulets."[14] Eye bead Gallery See also References Sources External links Last edited 2 months ago by Entranced98 Wikipedia Wikimedia Foundation Powered by MediaWiki Content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Privacy policy Contact Wikipedia Code of Conduct Developers Statistics Cookie statement Terms of Use Desktop

Christian Charles Philip Bale (born 30 January 1974) is an English and American actor. Known for his versatility and physical transformations for his roles, he has been a leading man in films of several genres. He has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. Forbes magazine ranked him as one of the highest-paid actors in 2014. Christian Bale A headshot of Bale smiling on the red carpet at the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival Bale in 2019; Born Christian Charles Philip Bale 30 January 1974 (age 51); Haverfordwest, Wales: Citizenship: United Kingdom: United States; Occupation: Actor; Spouse: Sibi Blažić ​(m. 2000)​; Children: 2; Father; David Bale: Gloria Steinem (stepmother): Born in Wales to English parents, Bale had his breakthrough role at age 13 in Steven Spielberg's 1987 war film Empire of the Sun. After more than a decade of leading and supporting roles in films, he gained wider recognition for his portrayals of serial killer Patrick Bateman in the black comedy American Psycho (2000) and the title role in the thriller The Machinist (2004). He played superhero Batman in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight trilogy (2005–2012), one of the highest-grossing film franchises. Outside his work as Batman, Bale had starring roles in a range of films, including Nolan's period drama The Prestige (2006), the action film Terminator Salvation (2009), the crime drama Public Enemies (2009), and the epic film Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014). For his portrayal of boxer Dicky Eklund in David O. Russell's biographical film The Fighter (2010), he won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Further Academy Award nominations came for his work in Russell's black comedy American Hustle (2013) and Adam McKay's biographical satires The Big Short (2015) and Vice (2018). His portrayal of politician Dick Cheney in Vice won him a second Golden Globe Award. Bale has since played Ken Miles in the sports drama Ford v Ferrari (2019) and Gorr the God Butcher in the superhero film Thor: Love and Thunder (2022).

Without dark money: Libertarians bertarians envision a pluralist, cosmopolitan society united by commerce and travel, not divided by nationalistic antagonisms. They envision a world where people are free to experiment with different ways of living, free to try new ideas that might just be crazy enough to work. A world driven by the entrepreneurial spirit that is always asking questions like “How could this be better?” and “Can I make something entirely new?” Such a society may have a patchwork messiness about it, but it would also be vibrant and humane. Because all people are moral equals, each possessing a wide domain of rightful autonomy, libertarians believe that claims of special authority—like those claims made by governments throughout history—require special justification. In other words, people claiming the right to infringe upon our liberty carry the burden of explaining why they’re entitled to do so. Furthermore, libertarians tend to believe that most (if not all) of the claims to special authority made by the various governments around the world are unjustifiable. Governments assert wide-​reaching powers to control people’s day-​to-​day conduct, take their belongings, and even conscript them into fighting wars. If they offer any justification for these powers, it’s only as an afterthought. Without dark money: Global Presence with Roots in Silicon Valley Throughout the past months, we’ve dropped hints about our global footprint. Our headquarters are in San Francisco, right in the heart of Silicon Valley. This strategic location places us at the epicenter of technological innovation, allowing us to leverage cutting-edge advancements and attract top-tier talen We also have a dynamic marketing office in New York, through which we design and deploy our campaigns. Our reach extends globally, with bases scattered across major tech hubs worldwide. This widespread presence ensures we stay connected with the pulse of the blockchain industry and can rapidly respond to trends and opportunities. Why Silicon Valley Matters: LGBTQ UNDER INVESTIGATIONS: No more DEI: Without dark money: Being based in Silicon Valley isn’t just about the prestige; it’s about the unparalleled access to resources, networking opportunities, and an environment that fosters innovation. This location is crucial for our future growth and aligns us with other tech giants who are shaping the future: Without dark money.

Skip to main content How do activists get people to pay attention without being annoying? : r/VaushV Open menu Expand search Create post Open inbox User Avatar Expand user menu r/VaushV icon Go to VaushV r/VaushV 2 yr. ago Soft-Performer-9038 Join How do activists get people to pay attention without being annoying? Discussion The only time I ever see climate activists get any news coverage of note is when they do something that pisses everyone off. Yet, I know that millions of climate activists all around the world are doing all kinds of work, much of it entirely uncontroversial and self-evidently productive. Media generally doesn't care about any of that work. So what are activists supposed to do that both gets attention and is not annoying? Archived post. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Upvote 82 Downvote 228 Go to comments Share Sort by: Best Search Comments Expand comment search Comments Section NoSwordfish1978 • 2y ago Climate activists should be "annoying" IMO, but they should avoid the "liberal moralism" that allows the right to present them as engaging in "class war" against working people Upvote 89 Downvote Share [deleted] • 2y ago Climate activists should be "annoying" They should only be annoying to oil executives and the corporate elites, not to museum curators and truck drivers. u/myaltduh avatar myaltduh • 2y ago The problem is society is set up in such a way as to make this basically impossible. A working-class person is always going to be forced to be the first responder to any kind of protest. This is of course deliberate, so that even if you vandalize some billionaire’s house, it’s their underpaid staff that has to fix it. u/Kortonox avatar Kortonox • 2y ago How could you be annoying to oil executives and corporate elites? Either disrupt their business or damage/destroy their property. And that's what the "annoying" activists did, or tried to do. All the activists gluing themselves to streets are trying to disrupt businesses by stopping the supply chain (effectiveness is questionable but still). The activists throwing stuff at paintings tried to damage that property of said elites. By doing what you said they should do, they annoyed normal people. Did you hear about the guy who set himself on fire for climate awareness? No? But soup on a painting made headlines. And normal people had to clean everything up, the guy who set himself on fire and the painting. If normal channels are not heard, more radical stuff is done. And it's always normal people who get hit by it too, because they have to clean everything up afterwards. [deleted] • 2y ago • Edited 2y ago How could you be annoying to oil executives and corporate elites? That's what the "annoying" activists did, or tried to do. It occupying Blackrock or disrupting a conference for Shell Oil Company doesn't get mainstream attention at first, you keep doing it. Over and over and over again. You don't give up just because your efforts didn't immediately go viral on Twitter the first couple times. Creating a movement that galvanizes support and wins the American people over takes repetition. Some specific acts will go unheard, but the most important thing is targeting the right people, and there's a big difference between throwing shit at paintings hung in the museum (which btw are not 'the property of the elites') and actually disrupting those in the oil and gas industries. More replies [deleted] • 2y ago How? Blow up an oil pipeline and spend the rest of your life in jail?? Fuck that. Protest in front of a CEO's mansion and get arrested for trespassing? Again, that accomplishs nothing [deleted] • 2y ago So blocking highways and throwing shit at paintings is the best you can all come up with? It's time to get serious about this. 2 more replies Zigludo-sama • 2y ago I personally don't mind the soup-throwing (whatever gets attention, we're all toast if things don't change lol) but stuff like vandalizing that walmart heir's yacht seems to go over better with the public because it's inconveniencing the super rich and not them Soft-Performer-9038 OP • 2y ago I don't remember the yacht incident, did it generate as much discussion as the soup throwing? u/Extension-Ad-2760 avatar Extension-Ad-2760 • 2y ago Barely any whatsoever u/Gnosrat avatar Gnosrat • 2y ago I say just ruin a bigger yacht next time. Or just more yachts. Make it a habit. The soup thing only got so much attention because it just kept happening. 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Wikipedia Search Fannie Mae Article Talk Language Download PDF Watch Edit For the song, see Fannie Mae (song). For the Chicago-based confectionery, see Fannie May. For science fiction character, see Whipping Star. "FNMA" redirects here. For the airport with this code, see Malanje Airport. The Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA), commonly known as Fannie Mae, is a United States government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) and, since 1968, a publicly traded company. Founded in 1938 during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal,[2] the corporation's purpose is to expand the secondary mortgage market by securitizing mortgage loans in the form of mortgage-backed securities (MBS),[3] allowing lenders to reinvest their assets into more lending and in effect increasing the number of lenders in the mortgage market by reducing the reliance on locally based savings and loan associations (or "thrifts").[4] Its brother organization is the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC), better known as Freddie Mac. Fannie Mae Fannie Mae's headquarters in Washington, D.C. Company type Government-sponsored enterprise and public company Traded as OTCQB: FNMA Industry Financial services Founded 1938; 87 years ago Headquarters Washington, D.C., U.S. Key people Bill Pulte (Chairman) Priscilla Almodovar (CEO and President) Products Mortgage-backed securities Revenue Decrease US$29.048 billion (2023) Net income Increase US$17.408 billion (2023) Total assets Increase US$4.325 trillion (2023) Total equity Increase US$77.682 billion (2023) Number of employees c. 8,100 (December 2023) Website fanniemae.com Footnotes / references [1] In 2024, with over $4.3 trillion in assets, Fannie Mae is the largest company in the United States and the fifth largest company in the world, by assets.[5][6] Fannie Mae was ranked number 27 on the Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue and was ranked number 58 on the Fortune Global 500 rankings of the largest global corporations by total revenue.[5][6] In terms of profit, Fannie Mae is the 15th most profitable company in the United States and the 33rd most profitable in the world.[5][6] History Business Controversies Leadership Related legislation See also References External links Last edited 2 days ago by Anonymous11113 Wikipedia Wikimedia Foundation Powered by MediaWiki Content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Privacy policy Contact Wikipedia Code of Conduct Developers Statistics Cookie statement Terms of Use Desktop