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The unintended consequences here are having a guarantee on uninsured deposits. Most people are unaware they are loaning money to a bank when they open a bank a
by joekar 4y ago
The unintended consequences here are having a guarantee on uninsured deposits.
Most people are unaware they are loaning money to a bank when they open a bank account.
You've effectively said that bank deposits are now risk-free, meaning that the government is back-stopping 9.2 Trillion of deposits (40% of all deposits).
Can banks still provide a yield for these guaranteed deposits? Are they still able to loan out these deposits? What are the new capital requirements for these deposits, are depositors allow to take their money out when a bank run is happening?
We don't know
- DubiousPusher 4y agoYeah, I agree. I think this a situation where the individual decisions mostly make sense. But when you add them up, you get a system that creates some questionable implications.