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Re:$3B in Bitcoin was sold in a last-ditch attempt to save U... by jpmattia on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @08:54AM (#31409807)
> Nobody claimed nobody in a regulated system ever loses money.

Only if you read the above questions literally and miss his meaning:

> Into a mess for who? Depositors?

> Could you summarize how much money depositors across the entire United States lost to bank busts over the past, say 40 years?

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Re:$3B in Bitcoin was sold in a last-ditch attempt to save U... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @09:17AM (#31410096)
The S&L crisis was a “crisis” because non-bank S&Ls lost money in a way depositors haven’t. You have still not pointed to a single American depositor losing money since 1982, though I’d extend that to the post-War era.
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