Obviously it's not how it works, I was kidding. The FDIC insurance works just fine, though, it would not be a long time before I had access to my insured deposits. |
That's not how the government works. Neither Reps or Dems. |
My point was that there are opportunity costs to a pot of money, just because they “made” some money doesn’t mean it was the most prudent use of cash to save bankers jobs. |
| I’m moving out of Ally to Marcus. |
| Sandy Spring is a DC area bank, surely with lots of feds as depositors. It's not a silicone valley or NYC community bank. |
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That article was super misleading because it's not primarily the same margin issue that caused SVB to fail.
Lots of banks' margins went down because the value of long term bond holdings went down due to rapid interest rate increases. Banks do need to be attentive to this. What was unique about SVB is 1) it banks with a LOT of tech start ups that were experiencing cash crunches at the same time due to interest rate rises which triggered a bank run, 2) it used a merger with another bank to artificially change its margin requirements so its margin issues were more pronounced than the others. Something like 97% of SVB's money was tied up in accounts over 250k because is served so many businesses, a bank like Ally is nearly exclusively focused on personal individual banking. Not in the same universe. |
You go, girl! |