
The Role of Leverage in the Failures of Silvergate, Silicon Valley, and Signature Banks
Now is the time for federal banking regulators to raise equity requirements to prevent banking history from repeating itself yet again.
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Marc Jarsulic is a senior fellow and the chief economist at American Progress. He has worked on economic policy matters as deputy staff director and chief economist at the Joint Economic Committee, as chief economist at the Senate Banking Committee, and as chief economist at Better Markets. He has practiced antitrust and securities law at the Federal Trade Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and in private practice. Before coming to Washington, he was professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame.
He earned an economics Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. at the University of Michigan. His most recent book is Anatomy of a Financial Crisis.
Now is the time for federal banking regulators to raise equity requirements to prevent banking history from repeating itself yet again.
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