So you think it is practical for a company with millions of dollars in payroll to divide amongst banks so that all of their accounts are under 250k? You are OK with a run on smaller banks as a result of the government not backstopping the deposits at SVB? If there had been contagion (which there almost certainly would have been), where do you think the money would have gone when people started pulling their money out of regional banks? The answer is that most of it would have gone to larger banks like Chase and B of A.
Yes I do. Those companies knew the deal full well going in. The limit is 250k. I expect the companies to monitor their financials better and know exactly what the bank is doing with their money. The depositing companies should have known SVB was loaded up with long term government bonds, which will suffer during periods of high interest rates.
Hell, even SVB admitted this in the annual report. In SVB’s 2022 annual report posted in Jan 23, they admitted having unrealized losses of 15 billion in the long term govt bonds. They also published they had only 16 billion in total capital. That is enough to wipe them out right there. THEY DIDNT HIDE IT. And companies left their money in there.
Whose fault is this? The American taxpayer? Or the ones that ignored all warnings?
I won’t even get into their work policies and the fact they had not hired a risk accessor in a year.
Why must this society never have losers? Why must everyone be a winner? This bank made bad decisions, its depositors made bad decisions. Why must the American taxpayer bail them out?
Contagion? You think this averted contagion? The fed was busy over the weekend printing money to cover not only these losses but others as well. 2 other banks went under and everyone was made
Whole. Billions upon billions was also sent to 6 other banks yesterday to prevent them from going under.
The bail out of SVB will only insure others demand the same treatment when they go under. Even if by their own mistakes. It will insure our taxes rise, inflation rise and interest rates go up even farther.
How can one have such blind faith in government. How can people expect others to pay for their own laziness and mistake. What gives them the right.