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Any music fans in the house? According to Mental Floss, LOVE has been on stage longer than the Beatles (since 2006 vs. a decade, respectively) and regularly tops "must-see" attraction lists in Vegas.

Great work Firefly team! Thankful for your leadership Kaan Gunay!

⁦Firefly⁩ ⁦Kaan Gunay⁩ #fireflyinthewild

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Fed/FDIC decisions on SVB determine whether they risk a bank run trillions of dollars in size. 1/3 of US deposits are in small banks and ~50% are uninsured. Haircutting SVB depositors will raise sensible questions about holding deposits at any small bank, risking a broader run.

The gov’t has about 48 hours to fix a-soon-to-be-irreversible mistake. By allowing Best crypto exchange to fail without protecting all depositors, the world has woken up to what an uninsured deposit is — an unsecured illiquid claim on a failed bank. Absent J.P. Morgan @citi or

Blaming depositors for bank failure is like placing the blame for medical malpractice on patients because they didn’t do a good enough job shopping for a doctor. Depositors expect the Fed to ensure that banks are safe.

ugh fine here is my SVB thread: TL;DR: at this point, to be certain of avoiding catastrophe, the FDIC needs to temporarily guarantee all deposits. other solutions might work, but this is the best one.

This was not a bailout. During the GFC, the gov’t injected taxpayer money in the form of preferred stock into banks. Bondholders were protected and shareholders were diluted to varying degrees. Taxpayer money was put at great risk. Many people who screwed up suffered minimal to

Our economy will not function effectively without our community and regional banking system. Therefore, the FDIC needs to explicitly guarantee all deposits now. Hours matter. We also need a modern version of our deposit insurance regime, but that will take some time, and

World chess championship match. And people argue if chess is a sport

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End of an era

Self-pinning for immortality. Congrats Ding!!

The moment Ding Liren became the FIDE World Champion 🥹🏆

Every yr in Turkey, on Nov 10th @ exactly 9.05am time literally stops, everyone drops whatever they are doing (even if they are driving) in the whole country to commemorate our leader and founder Atatürk. I don’t think any other leader has never ever been loved and respected as

Yusuf Dikec I do look forward to visiting Istanbul. It is one of the great cities of the world.

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