No one knows that taxpayers will have to pay anything for any of this. It's possible they'll end up ahead. The assets were/are there to cover depositors. The timing of the asset liquidation/redemption is the problem, and only the "bank of last resort" can help avert contagion from skittish depositors, mass layoffs, and pointless disruption.
As said above: would you prefer to see hundreds or thousands of small companies fail, their employees go on unemployment insurance, etc.?
> No one knows that taxpayers will have to pay anything for any of this. It's possible they'll end up ahead.
Wouldn't SVB have been sold at auction by the FDIC if that were likely to happen?
I don't want to see startups fail or people lose their jobs, but this all feels like a cloaked way of passing the cost of the bailout onto the taxpayers (via raised FDIC fees that will trickle down).
As said above: would you prefer to see hundreds or thousands of small companies fail, their employees go on unemployment insurance, etc.?