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Re:Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules... by JumpCrisscross on Sunday March 12, 2023 @11:52AM (#35121581)
> the market value of SVB's assets is likely lower than $175B at the moment

Deposits are less, too. We won’t have a good picture of their balance sheet until later.

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Re:Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules... by Denvercoder9 on Sunday March 12, 2023 @12:21PM (#35122044)
That's true, I should've said that the market value of SVB's assets is likely lower than their deposits at the moment. Of course we don't know for sure, but if the market value of assets exceeded deposits, they wouldn't have had to close down.
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Re:Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules... by JumpCrisscross on Sunday March 12, 2023 @12:22PM (#35122064)
> we don't know for sure, but if the market value of assets exceeded deposits, they wouldn't have had to close down

They would have borrowed at the Fed’s discount window if it did. That’s the systemic solution to illiquidity. The FDIC is a fix for insolvency.

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