It is clear that, 15 years after the last round of major bank failures, there is no consensus on how to deal with the next failure, especially a very big one
Bank failures happen with baffling, depressing and monotonous regularity. More than 560 banks have collapsed in the US since 2001, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, which guarantees the deposits of US savers. That’s one roughly every fortnight, and that’s just America.
Most of these banks were small and perhaps local institutions rather than national ones, so their demise did not pose much risk to the wider US economy or financial markets. In 2019, ...
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