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It's been exactly four weeks since government officials walked into Silicon Valley bank and took it over.
And wow, what a month it has been.
I mean, yes, this is the biggest banking mess since 2008.
And to try to slow or stop contagion to other banks, the federal government took some pretty extraordinary measures.
So far.
Those measures seem to have worked, but still, regulators are being dragged before Congress for questioning.
The Federal Reserve and the FDIC are working on reports about what went wrong with oversight thatll be released next month.
Its one of those news stories that is so dramatic that its captured the publics attention.
Its made us dive into the little details, details that turns out matter a lot to the larger economy.
And we, and judging by our inbox, you still have a lot of questions.
Hello, and welcome to Planet Money.
I'm Nick Fountain.
I'm Amanda Aronczyk.
And it is time to open the phone line to figure out the answers to some pretty big questions, some yours, some of our own, about banks and about this month of banking drama, because this whole mess really has us rethinking a lot about how the banking system works and doesn't work.
Today on the show, some big was it a bailout?
Where were the regulators?
And hey, is this over?
What about those other banks that were teetering on the edge?
Okay, for our first question, we have brought in a very special guest all the way from the indicator podcast.