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Well, the term "bailout" usually implies two facts:

(1) Shareholders aren't zeroed in a bailout

(2) The government pays for a bailout

Neither is true here.



> (1) Shareholders aren't zeroed in a bailout

If uninsured depositors took losses in the run on SVB, lots of other banks were going down too in the coming weeks. I think the argument is not that SVB is getting bailed out but investors in all the other poorly funded banks that won't fail.




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