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Say help me. what they've done this weekend should underpin everything. >> i want to get to a viewer question. this comes from aaron in fenton, missouri. here's what he asked. listen. >> are banks in a similar position as they were in 2008? >> they're not allowed to. they're not allowed to anymore. they haven't, and to your point, they don't have all that garbage, that junk on their balance sheets anymore because they're not allowed to. they have to have better capital set aside, and the big banks have to undergo stress tests. this is where the verdict is out on the controversy about whether s...

Debating today will, and i quote, increase the likelihood that a large financial firm with assets of between $100 billion and $250 billion would fail. end of quote. that's the cbo. in other words, this legislation makes it more likely that we will see another financial crisis. >> so, here's the cbo report senator sanders is quoting. the part is not a huge part of it, but the basic argument is that the stress tests that have been required, that are no longer required could have caught silicon valley bank's interest rate risks. the problems they were having investing in treasury bonds too much. ...

Particular made a pretty basic no-no, which was essentially not hedging against interest rate risks. and when everybody kind of knew interest rates were going to go up. so that's something that seem like it should have been caught. whether you can directly draw a linkage between that deregulatory action, you know, rolling back part of dodd/frank and this collapse i don't know yet, but it seems quite plausible. >> moral hazard is a term that -- i know been on the shelf for 15 years. but i am curious if it's back now, i get that the investors in the bank aren't being bailed out, but the deposito...

HEARTLAND FINANCIAL USA, INC. Declares Dividend on Preferred Stock July 21, 2022 - Heartland Financial USA, Inc. , operating under the brand... | July 21, 2022

DUBUQUE, Iowa, July 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Heartland Financial USA, Inc. (NASDAQ: HTLF), operating under the brand name HTLF, announced its Board...