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Re:US regulators bail out SVB customers, who can access all ... by rcme on Monday March 13, 2023 @12:09AM (#35130930)
If SVB didn’t get bailed out, there would be a run on small banks. Unfortunately, the government can’t bail out every small bank, so there may still be a run on the banks. Time will tell.
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Re:US regulators bail out SVB customers, who can access all ... by dragonwriter on Monday March 13, 2023 @12:14AM (#35130970)
> Unfortunately, the government can’t bail out every small bank

Well, they could adopt a new program providing cash loans against a variety of term investments to deal with liquidity crunches of the type SVB faced for all banks. That would be equivalent to a bailout (at negative expected cost) of all small and large banks with similar issues to SVB.

Oh, yeah, they did that today.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone...

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