Re:Joint Statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federa...
by ProjectArcturis on Sunday March 12, 2023 @09:01PM
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If you allow banks to make extremely speculative investments with depositor money, you end up with Ponzi-like behavior that ultimately hurts unsophisticated retail folks. Just like all the crypto "banks" offering 20% staking that are collapsing now.
All you've described is a way to build a pitfall for naive investors so they can lose the first $20k they've ever saved.
A bank that can offer government-backed guarantee to depositors can offer a low interest rate while making big profits, and pay big dividends to their shareholders and executives, steal market share from their conservative competitors while making themselves more systemically essential in the process, and leave the public on the hook if they fail.