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What to do as banks falter

“How did this happen?” That was the US Federal Reserve’s reaction to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, according to the central bank’s chief, Jerome Powell. Let us answer the question for him.

To make a very long story very short, a single investment rule would have served you very well from 1982 to 2022. Wall Street pros expressed it crudely: BTFD

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