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Re:Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules... by TigeriusKirk on Sunday March 12, 2023 @12:41PM (#35122373)
The bank is already gone. It's been wiped out.

The discussion is now about the depositors.

Re:Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules... by matheusmoreira on Sunday March 12, 2023 @12:57PM (#35122640)
Depositors lent their money to the bank. They took a risk by trusting a bank to manage their money for them. The bank took their money, invested it and lost it all.

Let them lose too.

Re:Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules... by baq on Sunday March 12, 2023 @01:11PM (#35122854)
It didn’t lose it all. About 90% is still there as assets and is being sold as we speak. The liquid assets have been sold already, so 50% will go back to the depositors next week.
Re:Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules... by matheusmoreira on Sunday March 12, 2023 @01:41PM (#35123361)
If it hadn't become insolvent in the first place, there would have been no need to liquidate its real assets in order to pay off liabilities.
Re:Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules... by baq on Sunday March 12, 2023 @02:04PM (#35123736)
Of course but the point still stands. If it lost it all we’d all be in serious trouble. It lost ~10% and there’s a nonzero chance depositors will be made whole anyway (with zero taxpayer money involved).
Re:Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules... by ctoth on Sunday March 12, 2023 @02:33PM (#35124202)
You are unbanked? How well does this work in 2023?
Re:Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules... by matheusmoreira on Sunday March 12, 2023 @04:34PM (#35125912)
I wish. Not completely. I do make every possible effort to move wealth off of banks though.