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The Domino Effect: How and Why Banks Collapse

March 28, 2023

Bank runs no longer look like that scene from "It's a Wonderful Life." The modern version carries some of the same functional pieces, but how it looks is different.


For this episode of RadioEd, Matt sits down with Maclyn Clouse of the Daniels College of Business to discuss the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank collapses and how that banking crisis spread across oceans.


Maclyn L. Clouse, PhD, is a professor of finance at the Reiman School of Finance in the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver. The Reiman School is the premier school of financial management education in the Rocky Mountain Region, and its program provides a strong foundation in financial theory as well as practical application.


Clouse’s primary areas of teaching are corporate finance, microfinance, and investment banking. For 30 years, he taught the Finance courses in the Executive MBA program. In addition to his traditional graduate and undergraduate Finance classes, twice a year, he takes students to New York for the Organized Walk Down Wall Street course, which was first offered in 1991.In June of 2016 and 2017, he took students to Brussels and London for a Financial Capitals of the World class.


He has also developed and presented customized financial management seminars for corporations such as US WEST, the Manville Corporation, Contel-IPC, Diner’s Club, Coast RV, Northern Indiana Public Service Company, Toshiba, Kaiser Permanente, Vail Associates, New Century Energies, OMI Inc., Galileo, Intrado, Cenveo, and First Data Corporation.


On many occasions, Clouse has been certified as an expert witness in court cases involving the valuation of businesses, small business management, and economic loss determination. Over three different time periods, he served Finance Department Chair/ Reiman School Director for a total of 25 years. He has a BA in Economics and Mathematics from Willamette University and an MBA in Operations and Systems Analysis as well as a PhD in Finance from the University of Washington.