Marc Rubinstein on deposit insurance

Marc Rubinstein offers a nice summary of the history of deposit insurance in the USA. The post is short and worth reading but the short version is captured in his conclusion…

Deposit insurance was never meant to preserve wealth … It was meant to preserve the functioning of the banking system. What the correct number is to accomplish that is a guess, but it’s going up.

Author: From the Outside

After working in the Australian banking system for close to four decades, I am taking some time out to write and reflect on what I have learned. My primary area of expertise is bank capital management but this blog aims to offer a bank insider's outside perspective on banking, capital, economics, finance and risk.

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