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Nicholas Gordon

Ken Griffin says SVB failure would have been 'lesson in moral hazard'

Citadel founder Ken Griffin in 2016 (Credit: David Paul Morris—Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Ken Griffin, the founder and CEO of Citadel, isn’t a fan of the extraordinary measures taken by the U.S. Federal Reserve to protect depositors at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank on Sunday.

“There’s been a loss of financial discipline with the government bailing out depositors in full,” Griffin said, in an interview with the Financial Times on Monday. Griffin continued that the measure was a betrayal of the U.S.’s capitalist economy, which he said was “breaking down before our eyes.”

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