Time to make banks more stressed?
b'Stress tests are one of the many tools the Federal Reserve has to regulate the financial system. So why didn\'t stress tests help prevent the bank failures of Silicon Valley, Signature and First Republic? Today, we explain how stress tests work and why the Fed is considering an overhaul.
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