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Re:Wealth Management Products in China (2015) [pdf] by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @02:40AM (#15548001)
> if there was ever a large run on the banks (like in 1929), they could only renumerate small a fraction of insured deposits (at most 2% in 2017)

The FDIC (a) cannot "cram down" [1], (b) has the ability to borrow $500 billion from the U.S. Treasury [2] and (c) is backed by the "full faith and credit" of the U.S. Government [3]. A decision to "renumerate small a fraction [sic] of insured deposits" would be a political call. It's certainly not a "could only" scenario.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cram_down

[2] https://www.fdic.gov/news/news/press/2009/pr09153.html

[3] https://www.fdic.gov/deposit/deposits/

Re:Wealth Management Products in China (2015) [pdf] by bmc7505 on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @03:36AM (#15548222)
(a) What alternative would they have, besides closing the banks? (b) Still only a small fraction of insured deposits. (c) Contingent on its ability to govern. How long would that last in such a scenario?
Re:Wealth Management Products in China (2015) [pdf] by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @03:44AM (#15548249)
> What alternative would they have, besides closing the banks?

Receivership [0]. Note that if your bank closes, the FDIC still sends you your money.

> How long would that last in such a scenario?

The FDIC has about $7 trillion in insured deposits [1].

In the crisis, between TARP [2] and TALF [3], the federal government printed $1.5 trillion. (About $1.8 trillion in 2017 dollars [4].) Meanwhile, the Fed bought $4.5 trillion in assets through its quantitative easing programmes [5].

Adjusting for inflation, we probably saw close to $7 trillion in fiscal and monetary stimulus.

[0] https://www.fdic.gov/about/strategic/strategic/receivership....

[1] https://www.fdic.gov/bank/statistical/stats/2017jun/fdic.pdf

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Progra...

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_Asset-Backed_Securities...

[4] https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1.50&year1=200...

[5] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing