Government intervention was needed to facilitate JPMorgan Chase's 2008 purchase of Bear Stearns. On the 15-year anniversary of this financial collapse, the banking system and Washington, D.C. ended up experiencing another crisis. Paraphrasing an Oscar-winning movie, the capital was everything everywhere all at once this past week. The collapse of two banks – Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank – and the government response was a crisis within a crisis within a crisis. Interest rates, bailouts, bank regulations, the tech sector, venture capital, crypto, social media, woke capitalism, and even the debt ceiling were all intertwined. Can policymakers unravel the recent events into a coherent set of policies moving forward or will it remain a jumbled mess until the next crisis? There are four things investors should watch moving forward.
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