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Catbird's avatar

Don't worry. If it's part of the deal, it'll come out.

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TakingAmes's avatar

There's one in New Orleans that is.

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H0mer0's avatar

I maybe wanted to put a sock in it.

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Gregg Evans's avatar

Xavier University of Louisiana, still Jesuit but HBCU.

https://www.xula.edu/

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Gregg Evans's avatar

It's St Patrick's Day, you should probably drink Irish Whiskey today.

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Gregg Evans's avatar

I think the more accurate term would be Clowns.

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Daniel_Oriordan's avatar

I think they've actually stopped talking about Ted Kennedy whenever a Republican sex scandal comes up.

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brucej's avatar

Well not in Florida for much longer, since they can't even say that Rosa Parks was asked to move out of her bus seat because of her skin color.

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brucej's avatar

Many of the 'multi-millon dollar depositors' at SVB were depositors there because using SVB was a condition of receiving venture capital.

Not entirely sure how that makes them LAZY and STUPID...

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Bitter Scribe's avatar

Good point. Nothing like a captive clientele.

The bank failed because the people who ran it didn't anticipate that interest rates would rise like they did. They had too much money in low-yield bonds, which lost most of their value when interest rates rose above the yields. None of this, of course, has anything to do with being "woke."

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Catbird's avatar

Hadn't heard that. Interesting information. I'll google it and see what I come up with. Thanks.

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Catbird's avatar

Looking, looking, looking. Found a long Vice article that actually said that there was nothing contractual between them and the companies they were investing in requiring them to bank at SVB. So, I'd love to see a source. Thanks!

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brucej's avatar

It's something I saw in passing when the whole SVB thing started; but it seemed pretty authoritative. Gotta go prowl through my browser history (on three computers!) to find it again...

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brucej's avatar

Either my Google-fu has atrophied to nothing, or Googles algos have changed, because several tries at re-finding what I have read has simply resulted in a huge mass of irrelevant articles.

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Catbird's avatar

Weird. As I wrote just a minute ago, I couldn't find anything. Doesn't mean it doesn't exist, just that it's not showing up.

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Boojum's avatar

Florida A&M University is an HBCU. Therefore all donations to offset tuition are BLM adjacent.

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