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‘Caritas in Veritate,’ ‘Fratelli Tutti’ and the Current Banking Turmoil

Noah BergerPolice officers leave Silicon Valley Banks headquarters in Santa Clara, California on March 10. US authorities seized the assets of SVB, a key lender to US startups since the 1980s, after a run on deposits made it no longer tenable for the medium-sized bank to stay afloat on its own.

COMMENTARY: The world of finance doesn’t exist outside of morality. Real-life decisions are made with real people’s money; real people grow wealthy or get hurt from those decisions.