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No you didn't answer my question. You made the case that how you value it depends on the plan. So what was the plan? The answer, of course, was that these peo

• fnordpiglet 4y ago
  The plan in a normal bank operations is to hold a mixture of long, medium, short, and liquid assets proportionate to a normal heavy withdrawal of funds. No bank stays liquid enough to survive the drawdowns they saw, because they’re not required to by law. They operate within the regulatory construct they exist in. The way they pay interest on deposits is by investing them to begin with, and if they’re invested in anything other than cash or treasuries, they face liquidity risk. That risk is not zero. It’s actually not even insubstantial. And risks are what the word implies, a risk. In an unlikely situation, they are insolvent while they liquidate assets - and often their long terms assets must be liquidated at a loss. This is literally how every bank operates. This is also why the government was able to step in and restore bank operations in a few days. They know how banks work too, they wrote the rules. So they know exactly what to do in this situation - because since it’s a risk of banking business, it can and will happen. You seem to understand the concepts enough, where is the disconnect? It’s genuinely confusing. This isn’t a novel take on how a bank works.