What goes up must come down: Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell leaves a news conference in Washington. The Fed’s hiking cycle contributed to the sudden collapse of tech
lender Silicon Valley Bank recently. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP
The turmoil, which some say was inevitable given aggressive hiking cycles, exposes the dependency of advanced economies on cheap credit
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