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Re:Anxiety Strikes $8T Mortgage-Debt Market After SVB Collapse by treis on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @11:19AM (#35247477)
>You can't prevent a bank run if people are going around whatsapp groups of major depositors telling each other to get their money out.

Sure you can. You close the bank when it's insolvent and people are saying to get your money out.

>They absolutely did, even when the rules didn't say they had to?

Yes and my post was to illustrate why. Perhaps that was not as clear as it could be.

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Re:Anxiety Strikes $8T Mortgage-Debt Market After SVB Collapse by pjc50 on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @11:23AM (#35247533)
> You close the bank when it's insolvent and people are saying to get your money out.

How does this materially differ from what happened? Is there a federal power to temporarily close banks? Doesn't the run immediately continue when reopened?

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Re:Anxiety Strikes $8T Mortgage-Debt Market After SVB Collapse by treis on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @12:27PM (#35248513)
It doesn't because they made all the depositors whole. If they didn't do that then the last 30% or whatever depositors remained would have taken all the losses.

Regulators have broad power to close banks. They could have done so when SVB failed to raise equity or really before that. Run stops because deposits are transferred to a healthy bank.

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