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Who Killed Silicon Valley Bank? (Opinion at WJS blames wokeness for bank failures)
WSJ ^ | Mar 12, 2023

Posted on 03/15/2023 10:22:34 AM PDT by Milagros

“Was there regulatory failure? Perhaps. SVB was regulated like a bank but looked more like a money-market fund. Then there’s this: In its proxy statement, SVB notes that besides 91 percent of their board being independent and 45 percent women, they also have ‘1 Black,’ ‘1 LGBTQ+,’ and ‘2 Veterans.’ I’m not saying 12 white men would have avoided this mess, but the company may have been distracted by diversity demands.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: sloppywoke; svb; unwokepeterthiel; woke; wokeness
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To: Milagros

Board chosen to be chocked with POCs and I don’t mean People Of Competence.


21 posted on 03/15/2023 10:59:10 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Milagros

You don’t want an operating room full of affirmative action, diverse doctors. Same goes for a bank, or any other company’s boardroom.


22 posted on 03/15/2023 11:05:53 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: DEPcom; DoodleBob

I’d like to know that, also.


23 posted on 03/15/2023 11:07:32 AM PDT by VMI70 (My Goal in Life is to be the Kind of Person My Dog Thinks I Am)
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To: DEPcom; DoodleBob

I’d like to know that, also.


24 posted on 03/15/2023 11:07:32 AM PDT by VMI70 (My Goal in Life is to be the Kind of Person My Dog Thinks I Am)
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To: DEPcom; DoodleBob

Gaack! My first double post since I joined FR...Sorry


25 posted on 03/15/2023 11:09:46 AM PDT by VMI70 (My Goal in Life is to be the Kind of Person My Dog Thinks I Am)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

“Being “gay”, trans, lesbian, black, brown, yellow, red, disabled, veteran etc is not a qualification to do anything!”

Of course it is. Who else is going to whack the pinata that is the rest of us?


26 posted on 03/15/2023 11:14:03 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: NWFree

Just not America’s enemies.


27 posted on 03/15/2023 11:17:19 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
There's a reason a saying exists that goes: go woke go broke.

We are being run by wokesters who never got an education, even though they all graduated from Ivy League, or west coast equivalent, schools.

There's another saying: stolen elections have dire consequences.

They both make sense now, don't they.

28 posted on 03/15/2023 11:33:16 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Milagros

Wokeness is just the new brand name for totalitarian communism and using lots of useful idiots to implement.


29 posted on 03/15/2023 11:35:29 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: Milagros

“SVB notes that besides 91 percent of their board being independent and 45 percent women, they also have ‘1 Black,’ ‘1 LGBTQ+,’ and ‘2 Veterans.”

And 100% woke.

“Go woke go broke” sure applies here


30 posted on 03/15/2023 11:35:37 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: Milagros

CRYPTO is in the center of this mess, also.


31 posted on 03/15/2023 11:45:21 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Milagros

WSJ wants plebes to believe that it was ESG that caused SVB’s demise rather than being caused by the hubris of our so-called elite.

This plebe is not buying it.

Corporate ESG is surface level PR, SVB died because the supposedly smartest-people-in-room screwed the pooch.

And it was bailed out on the backs of the middle-class because “Maverick” brutally libertarian VC’s cried and begged their buddies at the FDIC to save them.


32 posted on 03/15/2023 11:45:22 AM PDT by 13foxtrot
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To: Dilbert San Diego
The answers are, you can't & yes. Mismanagement will always destroy a company. Disney will be another one who will soon bite the dust, thanks to Roy Disney's granddaughter, Abigail Edna Disney . Roy Disney was Walt's younger, much younger (like 29 years), brother

Walt was born 12/5/1901, Ron was born 1/10/1930

33 posted on 03/15/2023 11:49:59 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Milagros

I heard this morning that they had one banker on the board.

ONE.


34 posted on 03/15/2023 12:35:27 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: NWFree
"Libtards They’re good at killing things."

They live in a fantasy world.

35 posted on 03/15/2023 2:58:54 PM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: logi_cal869

And that one helped Lehman to go broke!


36 posted on 03/15/2023 5:20:46 PM PDT by rollin
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To: euram
What is your point Euram? Allah Akbar , spot , pick on, hate ONLY the Jews?
37 posted on 03/15/2023 8:58:40 PM PDT by Conservat1 (https://justthenews.com/accountability/svb-knew-150-million-investment-losses-and-still-doubled-down)
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To: euram; All

So racist euram, any Jew you know in a positive light? Not like Mrs Acebedo woke of SVB, she isn’t Jewish...


38 posted on 03/15/2023 9:12:37 PM PDT by Postel
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To: euram; All

Did This loser euram “truth teller” ever go and and pick out Jews to thank them when economy is good? Or the separation between Jews and non Jews is only when it serves his fascist agenda? Yuck.


39 posted on 03/15/2023 9:24:41 PM PDT by Milagros (Y)
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