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by IgorPartola 1467 days ago
And also prevented a whole lot of people from withdrawing a whole lot of money. Permanently.

I know people like to romanticize 1920s but I didn’t personally want to live through a run on a “bank”.

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Doesn’t have to be to 1920s. I got some savings out of Northern Rock before the whole thing came down in 2007. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Rock