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Re:Amazon terminates iRobot deal, vacuum maker to lay off 31... by pjc50 on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @04:41AM (#39188114)
Banks have counterparty risk in the way that robot vacuum companies don't. Letting the banks go bankrupt would have destroyed a lot of perfectly viable businesses among their customers.

The cloud companies will count as TBTF too for the same reason. Although it's harder to see how Amazon might get into a "we'll have to switch the datacenters off tomorrow unless we get bailed out" financial position", since it's easier for them to trade as a going concern, if there was a risk of that happening they would definitely get a bailout.

Also, remember that the bailouts were in almost all cases loans.

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