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by UncleOxidant 1193 days ago
Not the Fed's fault. SVB's fault for going all-in on 10year duration MBS. If they had mixed in a good amount of shorter duration tbonds/tbills they would've been fine.
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It’s also a clientele mix issue.

If you have a healthy mix of business and retail clients, payday is a wash. If it’s a lot of business customers; every payday is like a predictable mini bank run.

If you have a small number of large, correlated and communicating players, you have a huge bank run risk.