Pervasive Bearishness Looks To Be Unwarranted

Silicon Valley Bank, itself, is starting to emerge as a blip, rather than another Lehman Brothers moment.

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Traders at the New York Stock Exchange, March 13, 2023. AP/Craig Ruttle

From CNBC to Twitter to Bloomberg News, the “panic” message has no shortage of amplifiers. “Ackman Concerned About ‘Contagion Risk’ Spiraling Out of Control,” was a Bill Ackman tweet today about a Bloomberg article about an Ackman tweet, an example of the sort of echo chamber that has been dominating the discourse since the run by depositors of Silicon Valley Bank.

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