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by abzolv 1193 days ago
The FDIC $250,000 insurance is there to protect the depositors.

The amount is not a secret.

If you keep more than that in cash in a bank account, you take a known risk and must definitely not be bailed out.

You did not need to keep that large amount in cash. You could have bought short-term US treasury bills with every cent above $250k, and your deposits would have been perfectly safe. All of it.