Re:Joint Statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federa...
by dragonwriter on Sunday March 12, 2023 @07:13PM
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> Does this statement reflect any shift in policy?
It’s a decision of how to apply existing policy to a specific situation, not a policy change. Existing policy is nonspecific enough that reasonable people could disagree on how best to apply it here without changing it.
> Haven’t depositors always been first on the list to get paid, even their uninsured deposits?
Yes.
> I don’t know if charging a special assessment to member banks is standard operating procedure
It isn’t routine, which is why it requires invoking the systemic risk exception.
> but that doesn’t sound like government intervention.
It’s a government decision to intervene in a particular way, so…
> It just sounds like reasonable operation of the FDIC.
It’s not just “reasonable operation of the FDIC”, since both Fed and Treasury actions are involved. And, even if it was, FDIC is a government corporation, so its actions are government intervention. Its reasonable operation is reasonable government intervention, but its still government intervention.
It’s a decision of how to apply existing policy to a specific situation, not a policy change. Existing policy is nonspecific enough that reasonable people could disagree on how best to apply it here without changing it.
> Haven’t depositors always been first on the list to get paid, even their uninsured deposits?
Yes.
> I don’t know if charging a special assessment to member banks is standard operating procedure
It isn’t routine, which is why it requires invoking the systemic risk exception.
> but that doesn’t sound like government intervention.
It’s a government decision to intervene in a particular way, so…
> It just sounds like reasonable operation of the FDIC.
It’s not just “reasonable operation of the FDIC”, since both Fed and Treasury actions are involved. And, even if it was, FDIC is a government corporation, so its actions are government intervention. Its reasonable operation is reasonable government intervention, but its still government intervention.