“The recent financial crisis was not initiated by bank depositors scrambling to withdraw their funds. Rather it was precipitated by a ‘run’ among short-term lenders who had purchased banks’ commercial paper or lent money to banks through ‘repos’ (repurchase agreements). When these lenders suddenly tried to liquidate these assets by selling them or not renewing the loans, their actions deprived banks of the short-term funds that the banks had been using to finance their long-term lending and investments. In other words, federal deposit insurance no longer works to discourage or mitigate bank runs, because it does not cover short-term lenders.”
http://bastiat.mises.org/2013/06/yippee-more-bank-runs-in-our-future/
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