Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Is that actually true? I see reason for skepticism. But it’s also challenging to go ask for an exemption to the rules on the basis of systemic significance when you lobbied nonstop for a decade on the theory that you’re not. You maybe convinced some people. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 12, 2023

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These institutions could have made the opposite case — that they were systemically significant and in need of the kind of guarantees and regulations the GSIBs get. But their leaders chose to claim to believe that liquidating then would be fine for the national economy. — PolitiTweet.org

The fact is that the US taxpayer already guarantees unlimited deposits, but only at 4 banks - JPM, BofA, Citi and W… https://t.co/rXL5dpwaic

Posted March 12, 2023

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It would be convenient for everyone if there turns out to be an eager mega-bank buyer for SVB. But if there’s not the whole premise of the legal framework congress wrote is that “auction the assets, pay depositors back whatever you can raise” will work fine. Will it? Maybe! — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 12, 2023