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>World order is still fluctuating all as a result of these betrayals.

It seems a pretty basic assumption that someone at SVB did a WHAT IF analysis to game out different scenarios if interest rates started rising. This is not rocket science.

>You can do a regression of interest rates from whenever to now, draw a line that's never violated until 2022 (even the 2020 lows were in-trend) and the 2022 highs were almost 50% higher than the trend

Well, if your bank is relying on analysis like this, it deserved to fail.

Here's how easy this situation was:

"Historically, would 5% interest rates be seen as crazy? What happens to our balance sheet if we see those rates?"



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