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Confidence Men - by Maia Mindel

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Lydia Tár, Marcel Duchamp, and The Banshees of Inisherin walk into Silicon Valley Bank

You want to dance the mask, you must service the composer. You gotta sublimate yourself, your ego, and, yes, your identity. You must, in fact, stand in front of the public and God and obliterate yourself. Tár (2022) Silicon Valley Bank collapsed the other day, and everyone’s been talking about it since - why did a bank run happen? Is a financial crisis next? What’s going on, like, in general? And I find the situation interesting, so here we are. The business model of a bank is simple: loan money to people over a long time, which makes you money, and then get money that people deposit into…

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